The tablet market should top all laptop shipments this year and the entire PC market by 2015, according to a report released Tuesday.
Market researcher IDC estimated that
tablet shipments will grow 59 percent this year to 229.3 million units. That's higher than IDC's estimate for notebook shipments this year. Topping that, IDC predicts tablet shipments will surpass the total number of notebook and desktop PC shipments in 2015.
"Tablets surpassing portables in 2013, and total PCs in 2015, marks a significant change in consumer attitudes about compute devices and the applications and ecosystems that power them," Ryan Reith, program manager for IDC's mobility trackers,
said in a statement.
