Michal Marek The analytical company IDC published a new study on May 28, in which it predicts that tablet sales will surpass notebook sales this year. This assumption demonstrates a significant shift in the way consumers approach portable devices. In addition, IDC employees expect that in 2015 more tablets will be sold overall than all laptops and desktop computers combined.
Ryan Reith commented on the new trend as follows:
What started as a symptom and consequence of economically unfavorable times quickly turned into a drastic transformation of the established order in the computer segment. Mobility and compactness quickly became the main priority. Tablets will beat laptops already during 2013 and will dominate the entire PC market in 2015. This trend points to a big change in how people approach tablets and the ecosystems that heat them up. At IDC, we still believe that classic computers will have an important role in this new era, but they will be used mainly by business workers. For many users, a tablet will already be a sufficient and elegant tool for activities that until now were performed exclusively on a computer.
Apple's iPad is undoubtedly behind the technological revolution that created this trend and a whole new consumer industry. In IDC, however, they point out that the current growth of tablets is rather due to the number of cheap Android tablets. In any case, Apple has proven that tablets are a viable device with a wide range of uses and great potential for the future. One of the sectors where the iPad is doing very well is education.
The iPad's success in education has shown that tablets can be much more than just a tool for consuming content and playing games. Moreover, with the ever-decreasing price, the hope that such a device - and therefore a learning aid - will be available to every child is rising rapidly. With classic computers, such a thing was just an impossible dream.
However, this great success of tablets does not come as a surprise to Apple's main representatives, who have confidently stated several times over the past years that tablets will soon beat computers. Even as early as 2007 at the All Thing Digital conference, Steve Jobs prophesied the arrival of the so-called "Post-PC" era. It turns out that he was absolutely right about this too.
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