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Tablets will make up half of PC sales in 2014

As desktop and laptop sales decline, tablet shipments accounted for 40% of the PC market in the 3rd quarter of 2013.

Forecaster Canalys is predicting that tablets will outship all other form factors, with an estimated 50% of the market, by the end of 2014.

This prediction compresses similar forecasts from the spring, pointing towards a 2015 market overtake.

The cost-favorable Android OS is expected to lead sales, with 32% of the market. Microsoft seems to have the most ground to cover with 5% of the market.

A critical first step is to address the coexistence of Windows Phone and Windows RT. Having three different operating systems to address the smart device landscape is confusing to both developers and consumers alike.

Via: Canalys

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Smartphones overtake those other phones

Today Apple will announce the new iPhone. 

Yesterday, Google announced over 500 Million Android devices had been activated.

As all this happens, the Pew Internet and American Life Project has come out with new numbers on Smartphone usage.

  • 45% of American Adults own Smartphones
  • 55% of mobile subscribers own Smartphones (For the first time… more of us are using smart phones than feature phones)
  • Nearly 70% of those who make over $75,000 own Smartphones

In a similar report, Nielsen indcates that 74% of young adults (25-34) now own smartphones.

Here is the demographic breakdown from Pew Continue reading “Smartphones overtake those other phones”