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April 24, 2012 03:28 pm GMT

Forrester: 760M Tablets In Use By 2016, Apple Clear Leader, Frames Also Enter The Frame

forrester embedded tablet forecastChalk another one up for the mobile revolution: There were 56 million tablets purchased worldwide in 2011, but a new report from Forrester Research predicts that number will explode in the years ahead: its researchers say that there will be 375 million tablets sold by 2016, representing a compound annual growth rate of 46 percent, and that by 2016 there will be 760 million tablets in use overall.That will still put tablets a ways behind PCs -- there will be 2 billion PCs in use in 2016. But combined with new products like frames (essentially docks for tablets to amp up their functionality), Forrester says that tablets will gradually become the computing device of choice among consumers -- especially among those in emerging markets, whose first home computing device will more likely be a tablet than a desktop or laptop PC.

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