After the madness of the Netbook, here come from the Internet Tablet. This is reduced to a computer touch screen, in color, which can surf the Internet, play games, watch movies, listen to music, reading newspapers and books. The Apple iPad, which will be marketed in April, "will revitalize the market for tablet PCs, which could reach for the equipment alone, 12 billion dollars in 2014," says research firm Strategy Analytics.
On the PC market, which continues to grow in units at a frantic pace but stagnant in value, a revolutionary new product is an opportunity of choice for manufacturers. As with every change in technology, new players could emerge, as was the case with the netbook, which has allowed the rise of Taiwan's Asus and Acer.
Since 2010, he could sell 10.5 million tablets of the Internet, said Gartner.Alone, Apple could sell 4 to 6 million units iPad, believes his side firm GfK. The firm's apple is not alone in this ball of suitors. The French Archos hopes a return to grace with his tablet PC equipped with operating system Windows 7.
In late March, just before placing on the market iPad in the U.S., Sony could make a stretched version of its portable game console PSP foothold in the niche of Internet tablets, said recently the Wall Street Journal.
HP, the world's number one PC, plans soon to launch his magic slate. Presented earlier this year by Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, Slate HP recalls the Apple iPad. "We continue to finalize our product. We expect to launch Slate around the summer, "says Eric Cador, the boss of HP's PC division in Europe.His tablet use "operating system Windows 7," warns one from HP.
Cooperation with the content
One way to respond in advance to the ambitions of Google with Chrome operating system OS, which should be used this year for large touch screens. Meanwhile, Slate is the most innovative product promised by HP's PC division this year. And Phil McKinney, a charge of HP's research, says that in three years it will be possible to launch an "Internet Tablet flexible.
For its part, the director general of Taiwan's Asus is also planning to enter the market for Internet Tablet "provided to establish cooperation with publishers of content in music, video games and movies.This ambition is shared by other manufacturers reported.
For Internet Tablet "might cannibalize existing products such as netbooks, digital media books and mobile devices to surf the Web," suggests one expert from Strategy Analytics. It will also be a way to renew the genre, for the Tablet PC, launched some ten years, never really took off.
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