The tablets are coming! The tablets are coming! And in full force.
Steve Jobs mentioned at the iPad 2 announcement event last Wednesday that 2011 will be the “year of iPad 2“. That may be true, but there are also a number of other tablets either currently being sold or slated to launch this year like Xoom and Galaxy Tab. All of this is giving PC makers concern as a report from Gartner is saying demand for PCs in the next 2 years will weaken.
Gartner lowered their PC sales forecast for 2011 and 2012 last Thursday. Traditional computers and laptops aren’t in as high demand as they once were due to the Apple iPad and other tablets.
Even though PC shipments are expected to rise to 387.8 million in 2011, a 10.5 percent increase from 2010, a dent in sales will still be felt thanks to the emerging tablet market. Gartner had previously reported an expected 15.9 percent growth of PC shipments for this year. A 14.8 percent growth for 2012 was also expected but that number was revised down to 13.6 percent.
“We expect growing consumer enthusiasm for mobile PC alternatives, such as the iPad and other media tablets, to dramatically slow home mobile PC sales, especially in mature markets,”
“We once thought that mobile PC growth would continue to be sustained by consumers buying second and third mobile PCs as personal devices. However, we now believe that consumers are not only likely to forgo additional mobile PC buys but are also likely to extend the lifetimes of the mobile PCs they retain as they adopt media tablets and other mobile PC alternatives as their primary mobile device.”
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