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Tablets will kill netbook sales
DESPITE CLAIMS that tablets will not cannibalise the netbook market, Lenovo is certain that the netbook's days are numbered.
Lenovo, which is making a concerted push into tablets, said it expects the devices to see good growth.
Rory Read, COO of Lenovo, told Rueters that tablets will settle in at 10 per cent to 15 per cent of the overall PC market.
However they will fill in exactly where the netbook was. He thinks that netbook use has faded and the technology doesn't have energy any more.
But Read told Reuters that he does not think that tablets will kill PC sales. Lenovo sees them more as a third or fourth screen like a smartphone.
The overall PC market is expected to top 400 million units this year.
Read does believe that the tablet will be a little different in the future. Lenovo is about to release the Lenovo U1 hybrid, which is a laptop running Windows along with a 10-inch touchscreen tablet that runs the Android OS.
Read said that the U1 is an example of the sort of "converged" device that Lenovo is banking on to drive growth. µ
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With the blooming popularity of tablets I am looking to become a chiropractor. How is one supposed to hold these things.
Lenovo's released tablets have been very hokey - the s10-3t was a disaster.
Even the high end x201t has limitations - and its well over 1000 bucks.
The u1/hybrid stuff was announced last CES and went nowhere fast.
The Lenovo branded offerings have been loaded with bloat and lack easy updates... so I am not holding my breath!
I bet the larger profit margins that tablets have compared to netbooks have a significant influence on these types of utterances.