Articles about prediction

One decisive factor when purchasing a new tablet is the availability of apps for that platform. That's a fact, and right now Apple is the one dominating the app world, with Android closing by in the total number of apps and even surpassing Apple by as much as 13.000 free aps (~135.000 free apps in Android market vs 122.000 in the Apple App Store). I'm not surprised to see Apple's iOS platform having less free apps, but it seems customers are also starting noticing this, and predictions don't loo...

IT market, as any other market is interesting in the way that one small change can have great impact on something you would never think of. Take for example netbook and tablet sales, small devices, with a lot of low power efficient chips or, as they are called, system-on-a-chip that have increased in sale numbers a lot and are slated for even more growth in upcoming years. This should mean great things for chipset manufacturers all around, right?Well, not for all of them, as the increased de...

We're talking here at AllTouchTablet about various tablet models all the time and occasionally we talk about sales numbers, market share and predictions for the years to come. As this niche is a relatively new one, every analyst is trying to see further than others and launch their own predictions about what will happen in the news two-three years.The new idea is that slate tablet sales will become a new way for people to consume content and will be seen as an alternative to traditional pers...

Are you sick of reports, sales predictions and experts telling you how things will go in the next few years? If so, bear with me one more time (see our tablet market reports history here) and let's see what Forrester has to say about sales predictions for tablets, netbooks, laptops and desktop for the next five years, till 2015.They've searched, talked to people, interviewed consumers, drawn charts, done some Excel formulas and come up with some interesting remarks pointing to tablets reachi...

It's no longer a mystery that tablets are 'the' consumer device of 2012, one of the fastest growing trends to date, but some are interested in numbers, not just suppositions, that's why Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Hubert has predicted that by 2012 tablets will outsell netbooks in numbers.Part of this success lies in the fact that the iPad is one of the fastest selling mobile devices of all times, with anticipated sales of 38.9 millions units in the first two years since launch. Take a look a...

Studies and market reports are like the weather: they depend on where the wind is blowing from. Reports depend on who asks the questions, who answers them and who gathers the results. The latest report from Retrovo gives us a new image of netbook sales (which are said to be declining) and the iPad influence on those sales. This is pretty much off line with reports we've seen in past months, but let's take a look at it nonetheless.As imagined, the report revolves around the iPad launch at the...

We've briefly told you about a report that sees great increase in touch tablets market share in the years to come and now it's time to take a peak at some numbers, predictions of things to come. We have actually two reports we want to share with you, one from Gartner that says devices with touch input will be enjoyed more by kids at beginning and then gradually will penetrate into adults habits of using gadgets and later will make way into business devices.Why will tablets become mainstream ...

Industry reports are an important part of process of making things better, by taking the pulse of the market and predicting how things will go in the future. The latest Gartner report shows interesting signs of PC market growth for next years which is projected to go up around 20% each year till 2012. Most of this growth will be attributed to mobile devices like laptops, netbooks and tablets, which will account for about 90% of this growth. This is just like predicted in an older report.Not ...

It's not really news but Deloitte consulting firm just released their annually Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) report which states that in 12 months time the tablet market will grow in size of approximately 1 billion dollars. Oh, and they call touch tablets NetTabs.Their explanation, besides the huge numbers or prototypes, concepts and official announcements at CES 2010, is that NetTabs cover a need that existed for many years: a small device, bigger than a smartphone but smal...