I am speaking at this years 2011 CES on Tablets with a track session called Tablets: A New Era of Mobile Computing. �During this presentation I will forecast tablets for 2011 and beyond as well. � I’ll save my forecasts for my presentation but in advance of Apple’s earnings call on Monday I will predict that Apple is on track to sell somewhere between 11-13 million iPads this year alone. � If you double that figure for next year iPads alone will ship between 22-26 million. � So from my perspective Gartner is forecasting extremely aggressive numbers for 2010 but they could be right.
Next year if you factor in Android, BlackBerry or Web OS tablets we could easily see 50 million plus shipments of tablets. �My firm is pretty bullish about tablets and the paradigm shift in computing they represent. � The fact that Intel and AMD’s CEO’s have already come public and said that tablets have had an impact on PC sales should signal this shift. �My friends over at IDC forecast PC shipments to be off between 10-15% next year due to tablets or “media tablets.”
I also think that Media Tablets are not the right category to label these tablets. �Right now tablets are being used as a heavy entertainment device but as I have written before the “touch computing” paradigm has a chance to change how we use computers.
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