from All Things Digital by John Paczkowski
Nearly 56 million tablets will be shipped in 2011–200 percent more than were shipped in 2010. That’s the latest forecast from NPD DisplaySearch, which expects that number of hit 172.4 million by 2014. That’s 35 percent of the overall mobile PC market, which also includes the notebooks and mini-notes whose sales NPD says the the tablet is cannibalizing, particularly in mature markets where the percentage of households that already own PCs are highest.
Hardly a surprise given recent trends. Recall that retail notebook growth in the United States has been charting decelerating growth for months now, driven largely by the iPad. Now with RIM’s PlayBook, Hewlett-Packard’s “PalmPad” and dozens of other tablets headed to market it’s only going to slow further.
Nearly 56 million tablets will be shipped in 2011–200 percent more than were shipped in 2010. That’s the latest forecast from NPD DisplaySearch, which expects that number of hit 172.4 million by 2014. That’s 35 percent of the overall mobile PC market, which also includes the notebooks and mini-notes whose sales NPD says the the tablet is cannibalizing, particularly in mature markets where the percentage of households that already own PCs are highest.
Hardly a surprise given recent trends. Recall that retail notebook growth in the United States has been charting decelerating growth for months now, driven largely by the iPad. Now with RIM’s PlayBook, Hewlett-Packard’s “PalmPad” and dozens of other tablets headed to market it’s only going to slow further.
No comments:
Post a Comment