Global Business Information: Tablet PC shipments ultra-PC is not far off: the fourth quarter or inflection point

IDC data show that global tablet PC shipments reached 52.5 million in the fourth quarter igogo tablet android 4.0 of 2012, PC shipments of approximately 89.8 million units. Although a difference of more than 3700 million units, but take into account the high-speed growth of the tablet market will continue, while the PC market is likely to continue to decline, the industry inflection point may not be far off. Sina Technology Luo Liang
A year ago, the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook (Tim Cook) said that this tablet computer like the iPad could one day more than the PC market. Now look, this time point may have gradually clear.
The market research firm IDC, released on February 19, "Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker report," the fourth quarter of 2012, global PC shipments of 89.8 million units, a year-on-year decline of 6.4%. This is the global PC sales fell for the first time in five years.
Correspondingly, the Tablet PC market is continuing to show explosive growth. IDC previously published data show that the fourth quarter of 2012, total global tablet PC shipments hit a record high, reaching 52.5 million units, a year-on-year growth of 75.3%.
"Although the growth rate will slow down, but in the fourth quarter of 2013, global tablet PC shipments are likely to be more than the PC." ISuppli company's consumer electronics and semiconductors, principal analyst Gu Wenjun said.
Not far off
In 2009, annual shipments of tablet PCs may only be 100 million units. But after Apple introduced the iPad, the market began a big change. In January 2010, Apple introduced the iPad tablet computer. The second quarter of 2010, Apple iPad goes on sale, seasonal sales reached 3.2 million. Since then, the Tablet PC market began to explosive growth.
Behind the Tablet PC market growth, constantly upgrading and innovation of the Apple iPad tablet computer, Samsung and other manufacturers of timely follow-up in the Tablet PC market. The recent growth as Amazon, Google and Samsung and other manufacturers introduced cheaper 7 inch Andriod Tablet PC.
In contrast, the PC market is an entirely different story. Microsoft latest Window 8 in the fourth quarter of last year and did not stimulate the recovery of the PC market, PC market shipments fell for the first time in five years, and the outlook is bleak. IDC data shows that the single quarter shipments reached 95.5 million units, the highest level since the fourth quarter of 2011, the single-season PC market shipments remained at 90 million units.
According to IDC, the fourth quarter of last year, global tablet shipments reached 52.5 million units, the PC shipped about 89.8 million units. While both still have a gap of more than 3700 million units, but taking into account the rapid growth of the tablet PC market will continue, while the PC market is likely to extend beyond the downward trend in the arrival time of the inflection point will probably exceed expectations.
Earlier, the market research firm NPD had expected, Tablet PC shipments in early 2013 to more than a laptop shipments. Desktop PC shipments are declining, so the global tablet PC shipments and PC years the overall volume of the gap is getting smaller and smaller.
Although optimistic about the expected fourth-quarter tablet shipments may exceed PC Review and prospect but pointed out that sales of the tablet computer still have ability to maintain high uncertainty. "Tablet PC shipments base has, at the same time the lack of a revolutionary new product, which will lead to the Tablet PC shipments slowed down."
PC camp fight back
Once the tablet computer shipments more than a PC, Apple founder Steve Jobs's "post-PC era" argument may become undisputed. But before this, the PC camp, led by Microsoft, Intel will not easily admit it.
As the world's second-largest PC maker, Lenovo Group has been claiming that now is PC + era PC based on user demand products morphological changes will still be in the dominant position. Lenovo Group CEO Yang Yuanqing has pointed out that the meeting in March last year, shipments of notebook computers are still more than three years after the Tablet PC.
Yang said at the time, "The PC is not static, and the future will be a new architecture next laptop will absorb the advantages of tablet PCs, will be lighter, thinner, battery life will be longer, of course, also can touch. better than the tablet PC laptop, it can create content, not just the consumer, read the content.
In fact, in the past few months, the Lenovo Yoga, represented by the integration of the products of tablet PCs and PC experience has become the PC makers race to launch the product, the these deformation PC products caused some impact on the Tablet PC.
Apple CEO Cook has stressed on more than one occasion, Tablet PC shipments exceeded PC is igogo tablet pc just a matter of time, but industry analysts believe, Tablet PC shipments are unlikely to exceed a PC. IDC research vice director Wang Jiping on Sina science and technology, the Tablet PC is less than a volume of more than PC trend.
"Heavy users as well as commercial users will choose the PC, although mild Tablet PC users will choose, but as the smart phone screen more and more, many consumers will give up the Tablet PC and turn smart phones. Deformation PC products will also impact the Tablet PC. "said Wang Jiping.
Relative to the view of Wang Jiping, mobile industry analyst Samir Singh (Sameer Singh) forecasts extraordinarily radical. Singh said yesterday that the trend of tablet PC market with intelligent machines market trends are very similar, in contrast, the Tablet PC to replace the PC faster. He expects global sales of tablet PCs in the first quarter of this year is expected to surpass PC sales.