Monday, February 14, 2011
Tablets Displacing PCs at Hot Spots
The introduction of the iPad in 2010 has not only taken market share away from other top mobile devices, including the iPhone and iPod Touch, but is also starting to become the primary device for people on the go. From the second quarter to the fourth quarter, laptops decreased 26 percent as the primary device used to connect to public Wi-Fi, while the iPad, along with other tablets, increased 10 percent and gaming devices (including the iPod Touch) grew seven percent.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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