subject: Tablet PC could account for 18% of PC market share within 5-year [print this page] Tablet PC could account for 18% of PC market share within 5-year
Tablet PC in 2011 develop rapidly. Beijing. According to the "Forbes" magazine April 8 Beijing time, the president and COO of Lenovo------Rory Read has said that the Tablet PCs market is still very young, but it would make up 15-18 percent of PC market of the world within 5 years, at the same time, "The Netbook has been gradually declining, which blurred the boundaries of laptop and netbook.
Lenovo`s current strategy is "protect and attack". Protection means that their strong position must be defended at their traditional areas, such as the Chinese market and Thinkpad brand of business computer. Attack means it is actively seeking new development opportunities, including the expansion of emerging market and development of a new generation of mobile devices. Tablet PC (LePad) is the first round of attack initiated by Lenovo.
However, this bubble is not an absolute number as productivity is growing. On one hand it's iPad's growing sales and on the other hand is its competitors expanded the market. But this is still based on iPad2's aggressive price to occupy its competitor's expectations. And this, make iPad2 sales keep growing, which means it's not only growing from its market growth but also it grows from competitors. Compare to iPad, its competitors productivity are very low considering the expectation that they have.
The first LePad tablet PC equipped with 10-inch screen, working on Google Android operating system and will be sold on Chinese market in April, the updating version of LePad will be sold from June in the United States. Rory Read said that the advent of tablet PCs is not long, but could make up 15-18 percent of PC market of the world. Rory Read compares the momentum of growth for tablet PC to that in the peak period of netbook. He said in an interview: "Netbook has been gradually declining, which blurred the boundaries of laptop and itself."
Lenovo has great expectations of itself own LePad, especially updating version of LePad that will be sold in June. In fact, Lenovo has been waiting for the release of Android 3.0 (code-named:"Honeycomb") . Before the release of the Honeycomb system, Rory Read has said that Android is not suitable for tablet PCs, which is his own consistent stand or position.
Rory Read consider that Android is only suitable for 3.5-inch screen
