Forrester Research revealed in the report “Tablets Will Rule The Future Personal Computing Landscape” that it is expected that 375 million sales of tablet devices are expected in 2016, with a total of 670 million in use worldwide. It is expected that tablet sales growth with be roughly 50 percent every year; 56 million tablets were purchased worldwide in 2011.
Because they’re bigger than smartphones, have longer battery life than a laptop, are generally quite handy, Forrester analyst Frank Gillett says, “All these reasons add up to our prediction that tablets will become the preferred, primary device for millions of people around the world, which is in the just-published report ‘Tablets Will Rule The Future Personal Computing Landscape.’ Note that there will still be lots of personal computers sold and in use — in fact our casual estimate is that there will be 2 billion PCs in use by 2016, despite growing tablet sales,” he added. “That’s because tablets only partially cannibalize PCs. Eventually tablets will slow laptop sales but increase sales of desktop PCs. That’s because many people, especially information workers, will still need conventional PCs for any intensely creative work at a desk that requires a large display or significant processing power.”
The iPad is expected to account for a third of all tablet purchases by 2016, while Windows 8 will eat into the marketshare of Google’s Android in a few years. 40 percent of sales are going to emerging markets, while just over 33 percent are for business-furnishing needs.
Source: Blogs.Forrester.com
