Remember when Intel and other companies with vested interests in portable PCs were saying that tablets would not impact their sales? Here’s yet another market researcher, Gartner, that’s finding the exact opposite.
It’ll be no surprise to tablet users that Gartner this week lowered its forecasts for PC sales for both 2012 and for next year. The cause, it said, will be the iPad, and other “media tablets.”
Notebooks and netbooks for consumers had been growing 40% annually, but with the availability of tablets the consumer market is nearing saturation, it said.
Gartner believes that many consumers that own a portable PC will buy a tablet. “Overall, we now expect home mobile PCs to average less than 10% annual growth in mature markets from 2011 through 2015,” said Ranjit Atwal, a research director at Gartner.
Gartner said tablets are now the “must-have fashion accessory,” not portable PCs.
The outlook for portable PCs is better in the corporates, Gartner said, but also pointed out that they are beginning to include tablets in their IT plans.
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