Growth of Tablet PCs threaten Smartphone and Netbook

Frost & Sullivan, predicts the tablet PC market will be one of the major market trend of information technology (IT) in the next few years. In his research company Business Growth Partners is a global market is a market tablet hardware, IT has the highest growth rate in 2010, and Growth of Tablet PCs threaten Smartphone and Netbook.

This year too, it is estimated nearly 100 new tablet launched. Whereas last year, sales of tablet in the world reached 18.3 million tablets, and 90 percent market share held by iPad. With a strong consumer appeal, recent business sector showed an increase in interest in the use of tablets. However, of the total units sold worldwide in 2010, only 5 percent are bought by the business sector. In the future this percentage is expected to increase and reached 30 percent in 2015.

iPad manufactured by Apple is expected to continue to lead global tablet market in the short and medium term. However, new entrants such as RIM, Cisco, Avaya and Android-based devices is also expected to gain market share relatively quickly in the short term. In general, the tablet has a unique selling points are very strong especially for the sales sector has varied industry focus. Industry is a pioneer in the use of tablets is the pharmaceutical sector, construction and consumer goods

Iwan Rachmat, Senior Consultant, Information & Communication Technologies, Frost & Sullivan Indonesia said, tablet PCs fever in Indonesia began to be felt since mid-2010 when Apple began reaching the world with his Apple iPad.

"However, there are still factors that inhibit the penetration of the tablet in the corporate market, such as the use and access via tablet that has not been common, limited application developers tablets, the low number of data plans 3G, Telco special subsidies for the tablet and high prices in local markets," he explained in Tempo release received Thursday (3 / 3).

He continues, Indonesia against the smartphone market demand and other communication devices is high, even Blackberry users in Indonesia had reached 3 million people, mostly used by young people. The presence of separate tablets could be a threat for smartphones and netbooks (mini-laptop version) that is currently in demand.
Source : Tempointeraktif.com  3/Mar/2011 18:15

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