∞ Analyst: iPad will change the entire PC ecosystem

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In a report released Monday, market research firm Gartner said that Apple’s iPad is one of the new devices that “will change the entire PC ecosystem.”

The iPad is also recognized as one of the products that will overlap with the traditional mobile phone industry. Having the size of a small computer and the mobility of a smartphone, many people are looking at the iPad as the device to simplify their computing needs.

“Apple’s announcement of its upcoming iPad has created much discussion in the marketplace regarding market opportunities for traditional tablet PCs and next-generation tablet devices, such as the iPad,” said Gartner in its report. “Gartner’s initialthinking is that vendors could ship up to 10.5 million traditional tablets and next-generation tablet devices worldwide in 2010.”

Overall, Gartner predicts that worldwide PC shipments are projected to total 366.1 million units in 2010, a 19.7 percent increase from 305.8 million units shipped in 2009. The spending forecast is predicted to reach $245 billion in 2010, up 12.2 percent from 2009.

“We expect mobile PCs to drive 90 percent of PC growth over the next three years,” said George Shiffler, research director at Gartner. “In 2009, mobile PCs accounted for 55 percent of all PC shipments; by 2012, we expect mobile PCs to account for nearly 70 percent of shipments.”


  • http://twitter.com/ShawnKing @ShawnKing

    Change the "entire PC ecosystem" how exactly? Simply by being a device that will "simplify their computing needs"?

    I certainly think the iPad will shake up a lot of aspects of the PC industry but I don't know that it will be as earth shattering as this article intimates. Time will tell.

  • iphonerulez

    http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/video/10695307/ip…

    Get invested in Apple while you still can, because the stock will probably shoot up by the middle of the year.
    Haha. The iPod was just another mp3 player and the iPhone just another phone. Myopic views from people that can't see past their own pug-noses. The iPad will be a solid gold game changer and the people that are naysaying it will be eating crow. I don't care if they say they don't like it or they wouldn't buy it. It's only when they say the iPad will fail, it merely shows their ignorance of the future of computing. What's even worse is that they swear a full Windows 7 tablet will be a hit while the iPad will be a miserable failure. Even after every Windows tablet running Windows XP or 98 or 95 or ME, failed miserably. Hardly any consumer would buy that sort of full Windows crap just to handle a few menial tasks.

    I really don't care what the naysayers think. I'll be buying the iPad and so will many others. It does most of what I'd want it to do and that's close enough. It won't do everything without increasing hardware feature bloat. Nerds love that stuff, but consumers don't give a rat's ass. Apple picked out the most important features for the low-tech consumer and that will be good enough.

  • http://twitter.com/M_Adams1 @M_Adams1

    Without Apple, the entire industry would be static. Remember that the iPod was "just another mp3 player" and the iPhone was "just another phone?"

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