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People buy tablets to replace older PCs, which is why PC sales were dropping over the holidays, Gartner.
"Whereas as once we imagined a world in which individual users would have both a PC and a tablet as personal devices, we increasingly suspect that most individuals will shift consumption activity to a personal tablet, and perform creative and administrative tasks on a shared PC," Kitagawa says.
Sales were down 4.9% in Q4 2012 compared to Q4 2011, Gartner says
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I think the main reason that the Tablet sold so well is because there are now a lot of low cost tablets like the Original Kindle Fire which cost 159.99, and the Google Nexus 7 which cost 199.99. Plus, most of the apps are free, or only cost a dollar or more on the Apple iOS App store and Google Android Play market.
There are also a lot of cheap $99 tablets which people can get at CVS drugstores, and other places like Walmart.
Plus, with a PC, you can replace broken or older parts like RAM, hard drive, video card, and other things, so you can continue using your older upgraded PC to run newer games, and software.
I bet there are now more poor people who just use their school or library's desktop computers, or pay a few dollars to use a computer at an internet cafe to do desktop tasks like Microsoft Word, PC Gaming, and Printing out homework, and they use their cheap 100-200 tablets at home for everyday tasks like e-mail, Facebook, YouTube, etc instead of spending hundreds to thousands of dollars on a full fledge desktop computer by Dell, HP, and Apple.
"Whereas as once we imagined a world in which individual users would have both a PC and a tablet as personal devices, we increasingly suspect that most individuals will shift consumption activity to a personal tablet, and perform creative and administrative tasks on a shared PC," Kitagawa says.
Sales were down 4.9% in Q4 2012 compared to Q4 2011, Gartner says
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I think the main reason that the Tablet sold so well is because there are now a lot of low cost tablets like the Original Kindle Fire which cost 159.99, and the Google Nexus 7 which cost 199.99. Plus, most of the apps are free, or only cost a dollar or more on the Apple iOS App store and Google Android Play market.
There are also a lot of cheap $99 tablets which people can get at CVS drugstores, and other places like Walmart.
Plus, with a PC, you can replace broken or older parts like RAM, hard drive, video card, and other things, so you can continue using your older upgraded PC to run newer games, and software.
I bet there are now more poor people who just use their school or library's desktop computers, or pay a few dollars to use a computer at an internet cafe to do desktop tasks like Microsoft Word, PC Gaming, and Printing out homework, and they use their cheap 100-200 tablets at home for everyday tasks like e-mail, Facebook, YouTube, etc instead of spending hundreds to thousands of dollars on a full fledge desktop computer by Dell, HP, and Apple.
