Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Smart Phones and Tablet sales to rise and PC and Mobile sales likely to fall

By SiliconIndia

Bangalore: Arrival of the new technologies seem to be surpassing the existing ones prominently. In the past PC made the way for laptops and sale of landline phones got affected because of the telecom industry getting captured by mobile phones. Nobody knew that even they were not here to stay for a long duration. According to the survey conducted by Accenture, rate of
"The research findings raise the question as to whether, in the long run, desktop and laptop PCs at home will be increasingly replaced by a group of newer technology alternatives such as tablet computers, notebooks, Smartphone and e-book readers," Mark Joseph, Senior Executive with Accenture's Electronics & High-Tech Practice, South Africa said. He maintains that if we go by unit sales then computer still remains the biggest giant among all the other technologies. 93 percent of the respondents for the survey own PCs. If the growth rate is seen then sale of PC has reached its saturation and might get diminished in the long run.

3D TVs, tablet computers, e-book readers and Smartphone are expected to gain hike by 500 percent, 160 percent, 133 percent and 26 percent respectively in the coming year. Survey was conducted in eight countries and focused on the usage and the money being spent on the tech products among 8,000 consumers. Countries include both emerging markets and developing economies: Brazil, India, China, Russia, France, Germany, Japan and the United States.

Research also highlight the usage of tablet PCs for the works that were earlier done on desktops. Usage of basic mobile handsets dropping from 79percent in 2009 to 65percent in 2010. Same period saw the intrusion of Smartphone in the mobile world and the sale went up by 32percent. According to the survey respondents Smartphone becomes a natural choice because it enables them to surf net while basic phones doesn't have features other then voice capability.

On the other hand Google said that it expects the rates that companies pay for search ads on mobile phones could surpass the rates of its existing PC-based ad business, thanks to the growing popularity of powerful Smartphone. They noted that the number of Google searches on mobile phones have increased five-fold in the last two years. 

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