The iPad’s launch was hugely successful. Selling 1 million of the touch-screen tablets in 28 days after it’s launch, the tablet device is easily the number one device in it’s market.
The popularity of Apple Inc.’s iPad will spur a sixfold increase in industrywide shipments of tablet computers by 2014, research firm IDC said.
Shipments worldwide will rise to 46 million from 7.6 million this year, Framingham, Massachusetts-based IDC said today in a statement. It expects 398 million portable personal computers to ship in 2014.
source: BusinessWeek