Tablet Sales Forecast to Hit 20 Million This Year
|Research firm Gartner estimates the worldwide sales of tablets this year will reach nearly 20 million units; next year they estimate the number to almost triple. Is this the end of netbooks?
“Mini notebooks will suffer from the strongest cannibalization threat as media tablet average selling prices drop below $300 over the next 2 years,” says Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner.