iPad Touch can grow sales by 5000 percent

In the category of Slate PC sales this year expected to climb to 8.9 million units. 2009 there were only 176 000. 2010 Tablets achieve a share of 56 percent of the market for touch-screen PCs.

iSuppli expects the iPad will trigger a touch-screen boom. This year around 8.9 million worldwide are touch-sensitive screens for slates or tablets will be shipped. This represents a growth of almost 5,000 percent from 2009 sales of 176 000 units. By 2013, sales increased by a factor of seven to 63.9 million.

Slates iSuppli defines as tablet computers, which have a non-hinged housing – similar to a blackboard for pupils, where this product category has its English name. While early editions, which were developed for the medical field or the construction, possessed a physical keyboard, will the market now dominated by devices that would be exclusively operated by touch screen, so the researchers.

Apple iPad iSuppli sees as a pioneer. Apple has developed its Tablet with much foresight. The combination of hardware and download secure content Apple in the coming years, the market leader.

For competitors, it was not enough just to offer a cheaper alternative to the iPad, it said in the study. "The market leaders of tomorrow need a mix of superior industrial design, compelling applications and an advanced touch interface – all in one affordable package."

In the PC market, iSuppli expects also a proliferation of touch-sensitive display. 2008, the growth rate amounted to 26 percent, in 2009 it had risen to 52 percent. "These figures will be surpassed in 2010 with a growth of 242 percent," said iSuppli. Slate-computer as the iPad would make 2010 a share of 56.2 percent of all touch-screen PCs, while the overall market growing threefold.

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By 2013, increase the sales of touch screens for Slate computers to 63.9 million units (picture: iSuppli).

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