Market research major IDC has predicted that smartphones and tablets are in things today and their shipments will overtake PC shipment in the next 18 months, i.e. precisely by June 2012. If reports are to be believed, the United Kingdom is slowly moving away from PCs and going towards Mobile devices. However, this is all about development of a new market of smartphones and tablets and in no way it means that PCs would be shunned. They would still be a main part of computing.
IDC also added that the total number of shipments of app-enabled devices such as smartphones and tablets all over the world would Touch a 284 million mark. And the projected figures for 2011 and 2012 are 377 million and 462 million respectively. This figure would easily exceed
that of PC shipments. For those who are uninitiated, one shipment equals one device.
The company also predicted that the PC shipments to be about 356 million this year as well as 402 million and 448 million for 2011 and 2012 respectively.
According to Frank Gens, Chief Analyst,
IDC, non-PC devices are not replacing the PC �" that’s a key point �"
but they are expanding the market. He also reveals the similarities
between the start of the PC ERA and what is happening today with smartphones and tablets.
He further added, the IBM Personal
computer arrived in 1981, but it wasn’t until 1986 that vendors stopped
debating the future of the PC and rushed toward it. A major turning
point for the PC was the 1986 initial public offering of Microsoft, a
company quickly embraced by Wall Street.The PC era resulted in the emergence of new companies and the loss of older ones that didn’t adapt to the market change. Today, through
acquisitions and Other moves, vendors are positioning themselves for the new smartphone and tablet market.
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