IDC predicts that shipments of tablet computers will surpass laptops in 2013
The data company IDC has a report out today suggesting that tablet shipments will surpass laptop shipments this year. That’s not surprising to anyone who’s been following this space, and it’s an indication (if we needed any more) that the future of computing is both mobile and ultra-low power.
Here’s the key graph:
The long-term trends in the efficiency of computing that we analyzed back in 2011 continue apace! For more on the implications of those trends, see my 2012 article in Technology Review.
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