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Tablets to sell more than netbooks in 2012
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 reaching 6% from the total number of computing devices (tablets + netbooks + laptops + desktop) sold this year in the US market.
This percentage will increase to 13% in 2011 and 18% in 2012 when it will surpass netbooks (17% in 2012). Next year, in 2013, numbers will increase for tablets at 21%, one percent more than desktops. There’s obvious a problem in the chart below, as if you sum up all percentages in 2014 you get 101%, but hey, numbers may lie, but reality will show us if Forrester is right. I tend to agree with them (also because I want to have a job writing about tablets after 2015). Desktops are the ones screaming in the graph below, but it’s nothing new on this front.
Forrester report for tablets market in US
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