A market research company said that tablets are set to cannibalise more PC sales as their popularity continues to grow.
ABI Research estimates that 145 million tablets will ship this year, with 50 percent of sales outside the USA. Price, new entrants to the market and increased shipments into enterprise will help drive the growth.
Business sales will account for as much of 19 percent during 2013, and a variety of slates using Intel chips and Windows 8 will begin to make more impact this year, according to Jeff Orr, senior director at ABI.
Meanwhile Israeii company Perion said it conducted a survey of 4,400 iPad users about how they used their machines. Ninety percent of those surveyed said they used their iPads to read and write email.
Women are more likely to read and write emails from their pads, while the favourite app is Apple Mail at 41 percent, Gmail at 31 percent and Hotmail at 13 percent. Eighteen percent of people use browsers to access webmail rather than using clients.
