ABI Research Experts expect that for the entire year will be sold around 145 million tablets. The released in late 2012 devices running Windows 8 and Ipad MINI will reveal its potential this year. It will make a significant contribution to the corporate sector, the share of purchases that will contribute up to 19% of the total tablet.
It is interesting that Apple on a quarterly reporting conference talked a lot about using their tablets by large corporations, educational institutions and government agencies. Of course, the software ecosystem Apple is still not well developed to provide business users with convenient tools to support the established standards, but the desire to challenge business people to work with tablets is not necessary.
Among regional markets, the main consumer tablets remain North America - it will swallow up to 50% of the entire released device this year. By the way, ABI Research experts does not tend to think that the tablets are destroying specialized devices for reading electronic books. In fact, according to the authors of the report, it comes down to the saturation of the U.S. market for electronic books and the weak development of other regional markets. Americans devices for reading books are filled.