Tablet computers are selling very well
thanks largely to the popularity of Apple’s iPad.
Some 54.7m tablets will be shipped in
the Americas alone in 2011, cannibalising PC sales, investment bank
Goldman Sachs has predicted.
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By contrast, the PC market has shown
signs of having peaked. According to research company Gartner,
84.3m PCs were shipped worldwide in the first quarter of 2011 -a
1.1 per cent year-on-year decline.
“Low prices for consumer PCs, which
had long stimulated growth, no longer attracted buyers,” said
Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner in research published
in April.
“Instead, consumers turned their
attention to media tablets and other consumer electronics
“With the launch of the iPad 2 in
February, more consumers either switched to buying an alternative
device, or simply held back from buying PCs.
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By GlobalData“We are investigating whether this trend is likely to have a
long-term effect on the PC market.”
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