Slowly but surely, take a tablet computer products other computer products for the past year. Similarly, the data disclosed two computer sales tracking firm, IDC and Gartner.
According to IDC, in the three months ended computer shipments grew only 2.7 percent. When compared with the performance of computer shipments during 2010 is 13.6 percent.
While Gartner research states computer shipments in the last four months of 2010 grew only 3.1 percent.
Both firms taker this computer production states, one cause of sluggish shipments of Apple computers are tablet, iPad. That’s why, a number of other computer manufacturers competing to make rival products iPad.
“computer market in Europe and the United States today is ugly. The cause is yes because of the iPad,” said IDC analyst Jay Chou, as quoted by the BBC on Thursday (13 / 1).
It is estimated, sales of tablet type computers this year will grow rapidly. One estimate suggests, tablet sales could reach 50 million units in 2011.
However, it is still far from total demand for computer which calculated last year as many as 346.2 million units.
IDC predicts, the computer market will continue to grow at least 10 percent this year. Hewlett-Packard was the leader in computer sales worldwide, with 19.5 percent market share. Followed by Dell and Acer computers.