“Tablet computers have been growing in popularity ever since the launch of Apple’s iPad in 2010, and now the number of tablets shipped worldwide is set to overtake the number of PCs for the first time,” Sophie Curtis reports for The Telegraph.
“Analysts predict that, in 2015, 321 million tablets and will ship worldwide, up from 256 million in 2014. By contrast, 317 million PCs (including desktops, notebooks and ‘ultramobile’ devices) will ship in 2015, down from 308 million in 2014,” Curtis reports. “Despite this shift, analyst firm Gartner believes that there will be ‘a relative revival’ of the PC market in 2014, driven by business upgrades from Windows XP and the general business replacement cycle.”
Curtis reports, “‘After declining 9.5 percent in 2013, the global PC market is on pace to contract only 2.9 percent in 2014,’ explained Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner.”
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