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Deloitte: PCs Taking Back Seat To Gadgets

  • Reuters, Wednesday, January 19, 2011 2:34 PM
Supporting similar findings, Deloitte said this week that companies will buy more than 10 million tablet computers this year. "Although some commentators view tablets as underpowered media-consumption toys suitable only for consumers... in 2011, more than 25 percent of all tablet computers will be bought by enterprises and that figure is likely to rise in 2012 and beyond," the consultancy said in its annual sector forecast this week. Likewise, Gartner recently predicted that the global market for Apple's iPad would rise from 19.5 million in 2010 to 55 million devices this year. As Reuters notes, "Deloitte said healthcare and retail sectors alone could purchase some 5 million tablets this year."

This year, as a result of the surge -- along with strong smartphone sales -- sales of personal computers will represent less than half of total computing device market for the fist time ever, according to Deloitte. Specifically, smartphone sales will reach 375 million devices in 2011, while the tablet market will reach 50 million, Deloitte predicts.

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