By 2014, shipments of intelligent network-attached devices (PCs, tablets and smartphones) will exceed 1.7 billion units, with about one billion of these products will be sent to developing countries.
It is predicted that BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) will supply 662 million of client devices for a total of $ 206 billion. Developed markets will get up to 650 million units, of which more than 400 million to more than $ 204 billion will be implemented in the United States, Britain and Japan. The demand for client devices quickly shifted from developed countries to developing countries, especially the trend is clearly expressed by experts calculated compound annual growth rate of this market segment - 7% and 17%, respectively.
In this case, in both developed and developing countries, there will be a growing demand for smartphones and tablets in 2014, they will be more than 1.4 billion of client devices, and their total cost will reach $ 500 billion. PC market will decrease to 300 million ($ 200 billion).
As the growth in sales of smartphones and tablets is reduced and the average cost of mobile client devices. For example, in 2012 average of tablets fell by 19% in comparison with 2011 (from $ 525 to $ 426), and smart phones - by 8.2% (from $ 443 to $ 407). In 2014, in the emerging markets will be in great demand tablet cost less than $ 350 and smartphones costing less than $ 300. In developed countries, consumers are willing to allocate more funds to purchase - $ 490 and $ 370, respectively.