Gartner expects tablet shipments will reach 197 million units

April 4, according to foreign media reports, market research firm Gartner released a report Thursday that the global tablet PC shipments this year will grow by 69.8%, to reach 197 million units; PC and notebook PC shipments will decline by 7.3% to 315 million units igogo
Gartner analyst Carlo Lena? Milanneixi, (Carolina Milanesi), hardware vendors must have consumers in the field of mobile and tablets in order to maintain relevance in the market. "The analysts said, Windows as the vast majority of the majority of consumers "default" select era is a thing of the past. Windows after the popular, would like to thank the Linux too technical, too expensive or Mac. She said, "Consumers now have many options, Microsoft has not as it should be that Windows will be one of the choices for consumers.
Gartner expects the global traditional desktop and notebook PC shipments fell 7.3%, but the ultra-mobile Cube U30GT devices (ultramobile means the run a full PC operating system portable devices, such as Microsoft Surface Pro Tablet PC) is expected to be slightly to make up for the decline in traditional desktop and notebook computers shipped. Ultra mobile devices counted, Gartner expects such products this year, shipments fell 3.5%.
According to Gartner, the global Tablet PC shipments this year the total will reach 197 million units, representing an increase of 69.8% compared to the 1.16 million units in 2012. Gartner also predicts that by 2017, tablet PC shipments will surpass desktop and mobile devices sum. In addition, a market research firm IDC had expected last month, Tablet PC shipments this year will exceed the total desktops, and beyond the portable PC in the next year.
Gartner also expects smart phone shipments will grow steadily in 2012-2017. Overall, the smart device market this year is expected to grow 9% to 2.4 billion. By operating system, Gartner believes that Microsoft's loss with Apple and Google's growth is very obvious. Gartner expects Android this year will strengthen its market dominance, further ahead of Windows; At the same time, iOS / Mac OS and Windows, the gap will be gradually reduced. Gartner estimates that by 2017, global shipments of 1.5 billion devices will be equipped with the Android operating system; Windows (including desktop operating systems and mobile operating system) is still ranked second, but with iOS / MacOS between the gap is not large shipments were 570,900,000 and 504,100,000 units.
WP's mobile OS will be among the top three
Gartner expects, 2017, Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system will be second only to Android and iOS, one of the three ranks of mobile operating systems; BlackBerry operating system will be Windows Phone far throw off. According to Gartner, by Blackberry released a QNX-based BlackBerry 10 operating system and new phones, but in the foreseeable future, Blackberry shipments will continue to decline. "Milanneixi said," a product to creating a company's era has passed, the brand's eco-system is becoming increasingly important from the point of view of consumer choice.
From this point of view, Microsoft in a better position than the Blackberry. Windows Phone design of the user interface, Microsoft Windows 8 operating system into the era of touch screen. Blackberry has its own tablet PC, but because re-adjust their BlackBerry mobile platform, resulting in the obscurity of the product. Milanneixi expected, Windows Phone will become the third largest mobile operating system behind Android and iOS, iOS and will not be too. "But the analyst also stressed that Gartner's report did not consider Apple will launch low-end iPhone,. If Apple introduced a similar product, iOS mobile operating system market share will increase igogo
FB or Amazon Should manufacturing mobile phone?
When asked Facebook or Amazon smartphone whether it makes sense, Milanneixi replied tablets android baratas that "does not make sense". Facebook, for example, from a brand point of view, people do not want a Facebook phone, but people want deep Facebook integration on the phone. "She said," Facebook want to get the user, the user wants to get involved. can not be a dedicated phone to achieve these two objectives through better application, and Facebook application integrated into the hardware can be achieved. "
For Amazon will launch a smartphone, Milanneixi Amazon with Facebook slightly different. Amazon does not require access to user data, the company hopes to sell content, sell products to the user, so that more users to the Amazon site. However, on this point, Milanneixi Tablet PC, rather than the smartphone, you can get a better experience.