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Ben Reitzes, a Barclays’ analyst, said this past Friday that the iPad is “running far ahead of its tablet competition and its their game to lose,” in regards to business. His report, based partly on a conference call with a Forrester Research analyst, suggests Apple is ripe to become a leader with tablet inclusion in the corporate world.

Mr. Reitzes is predicting 47 million tablets to be sold in 2001 and believes Apple will command a 70% market share with the continuing success of the iPad. His price target for Apple stock is $450 per share.

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Editor’s note: This article was reposted from businessinsider.com.

Apple’s iPad is a huge consumer hit, with almost 15 million purchased in its first 9 months of sales.

And after analyzing the market, we believe Apple is likely to dominate the tablet industry for years to come.

While competition will intensify, the iPad will continue to be the best all-around product for consumers, and therefore Apple should maintain very high market share (50%-60%) for at least several years.

Click here to flip through the tablet players one-by-one to see how we think they’ll do.

In the long-term, we don’t think the tablet market will be as lopsided as the MP3 or PC markets, where a lone platform (iPod, Windows) annihilates everyone else. But we also don’t think it will be as evenly distributed as the smartphone market, where no single platform has more than about one third of the market.

But, you may say, Google Android just kicked Apple’s butt in smartphones! Why won’t this happen in tablets?

The fundamental difference between the tablet market and the smartphone market is distribution.

Whereas smartphone distribution is dominated by wireless carriers, we expect carriers to play a relatively small role in tablet distribution. Tablet sales will be centered around electronics retail — the Apple store, Best Buy, Walmart — and big e-commerce, and not around carrier stores.

In mid-January, we asked Business Insider readers, "If you were going to buy a tablet, where would you buy it from?" Only 6% said they would buy from a carrier retail store or website. Meanwhile, 51% said they would buy it from an Apple retail store or Apple.com — where they only sell iPads. Another 24% said they would buy from Best Buy, Walmart, other retail, or associated e-commerce.

(That is, in part, because we believe that most people will not want to sign 2-year wireless data contracts for tablets, and therefore won’t care as much about carrier-subsidized pricing. So while carriers have taken it upon themselves to start supporting tablets like crazy, we don’t think they will ultimately do much of the tablet selling.)

So let’s walk through the typical tablet-buying routine.

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Technology journalist Walt Mossberg took a “working” vacation to Paris last month and purposefully left his laptop at home. He used his iPad to perform business related tasks. By his own account, the experiment was a success, the Wall Street Journal columnist was able to perform his work duties without a laptop, on the iPad.

Mossberg was able to keep up with emails, work with documents, watch videos, and using the SugarSync app, he easily accessed a file on his home computer from across the Atlantic ocean. Other productivity and editing apps were used such as GoodReader, Documents To Go, and Quick Office.

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The Apple iPad has been available 4 months now with sales doing better than most initially thought. Almost 10 million iPads are expected to be sold in 2010 alone, with projected sales in 2011 reaching 18-25 million. It’s no surprise. Well, maybe to all of the naysayers who thought the iPad wouldn’t take off to the degree that it has. But to most others, the iPad’s potential is becoming more obvious as its popularity gains traction.

iPad’s dominance over the tablet computer market in the future seems probable, at least until a viable competitor comes along. We’ve heard frequent droning from other companies about the next “iPad Killer”. The HP Slate hasn’t taken off yet. With an earlier reported release date by the end this year, it looks like the HP Slate won’t be killing anything anytime soon. The Samsung Galaxy tablet is expected to be released before October. There are several other tablets waiting for their turn in the limelight as well. I wish them all good luck, they’re going to need it.

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I’ve been falling inexorably in awe of my iPad. In essence, it is everything I actually enjoy doing on my computer inside a much lighter, more portable and — somehow — more intimate device. As I use the iPad more I find myself less and less surprised that Apple is selling so many millions of the things.  It can do anything, but some things are missing — here’s three missing features, with solutions.

Rather than launch off into some lengthy review in which I would probably reel off the spec sheet, give some glowing description of the product and its build quality (it just "oozes style", you "feel like you’ve never been without it" etc., etc.,), and then rant on knowledgeably about something I just read about on Wikipedia, I thought I’d focus on just three missing iPad features …

… and because criticism is just insanely easy and actually having ideas is pretty hard, I thought I’d do my average-intelligenced-at-best best to think of how to bring these missing features to the iPad.

First and fast: I love my iPad, but it doesn’t print…

I understand print drivers take up drive space and you don’t want to have drivers for every printer hogging that space on your iPad. But why not introduce a simple print app that speaks to your home Mac or PC over the Wi-Fi network or via the ‘Net and uses your home printer to print, running drivers on the remote machine?

You could also use this print app to print using whatever computer and printer set-up you were near and arranged access too.

This need exposes one secret to the iPad’s success. If your iPad doesn’t do something, someone somewhere is making an app which does it for you. In this case let me introduce PrintBureau, which prints email, contacts, web pages, copied "clips", email attachments, photos, text messages, shipping labels and much much more. And includes remote print.

Problem solved. A solution needs a problem first. Good lesson.

Number Two: Triple whammy

Here’s something I do. I read and research things online using my browser, email and RSS feeds. I have apps for all three on my iPad, and I also have copy and paste.

Good.

What I don’t have is the ability to run two or more apps at the same time side-by-side, for example a Web browser at the same time as a word processing utility.

Not good.

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By Joseph Weber

One of my family members and also one of my best friends are suffering from Parkinson’s disease. It’s sad. The disease has robbed them of so many abilities that we all perform daily without even thinking about it.

My friend, who is one of the kindest and smartest people I know, is also a brilliant engineer, scientist and accomplished author. The last several years have caused a marked decline in his ability to easily perform the activities we all take for granted. Even eating a bowl of cereal for breakfast was nearly an impossible task for him … at least until a few weeks ago, when he had a deep brain stimulator (DBS) placed. The results are nothing less than miraculous!

Last week I saw him for the first time since the placement of his DBS, and I was utterly amazed! His tremors were gone! He still had some residual “stiffness” in his leg, and his fine motor skills were not perfect, but it was an astounding difference.

After we had a chance to chat, the very next thing he did was pull out his iPad! Yes, my friend is back. Previously, he was unable to even talk on the phone without the use of a headset because of his trembling hands. Of course this made the use of a computer with keyboard and mouse essentially impossible. Although he has lost some of his fine motor skills, even with the use of the DBS, and has lost his previous ability for high-speed typing, he certainly was able to rapidly move around his iPad without difficulty! Wow!

Read more: advanceweb.com

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