Tablet Sales Overtook Netbook Sales in Q2 2011

For the first time of all time, tablet shipments have surpassed netbook shipments–finally audible the decease knell for netbooks.

Marketing research firm ABI Inquiry reports that Q2 2011 global pill shipments rosaceous to 13.6 million units, compared to fitting 7.3 meg netbooks.

Netbooks declined 13 percent from their first quarter load of 8.4 million netbooks, simply, more significantly, tablet shipments really boomed: In the 1st after part of this class, just 6.4 million tablets shipped—making the second quarter shipments a 112.5 percent addition.

I don't think this is a storm to anyone; if anything, netbooks seem to have had a longer-than-expected run.

Nowadays we give birth devices that are more outboard and powerful compared your typically under-powered netbook–and closely as affordable (especially given this year's pad of paper price wars). Smartphones are pocketable and capable of doing the intelligent emailing and web searching that netbooks are usually set-aside for, tablets tender a more pleasant multimedia system experience and access to a gazillion apps, and prices for Sir Thomas More effectual laptops have been dropping steadily (see the $399 HP DM1, for example).

Loan-blend devices such as the Asus Eee Pad Transformer, which has the functionality of a netbook with the keyboard moorage station and the portability of a tablet, straddle the unexcelled of both worlds.

ABI notes that there's stillness demand for netbooks in underserved countries, only the rise of the tablet and fall of the netbook is a trend they do not expect leave reverse. My money's non on netbooks either.

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