When it comes to products, Apple is also setting the tone. At CES a slew of iPad competitors is coming – one of the best is most likely to be previewed by Motorola, whose unnamed Android tablet was shown off by Google's Andy Rubin late last year. Sarah Rotman Epps, an analyst at Forrester, reckons that "tablets are proving themselves to be lifestyle devices at home and at work, and as such we think consumers will upgrade to newer models more rapidly than they would a more utilitarian device like a PC". This is music to manufacturers' ears, and specifically to Apple investors: "In other words, we think a significant number of first-generation iPad buyers will buy iPad 2 when it comes out this year," continues Rotman Epps. The Consumer Electronics Association's Chief Economist, Shawn DuBravac, estimates more than 100 new tablets will be seen at CES.
Here comes the Ipad Apps Store and Look-a-likes enter as mainstream consumer electronics devices like iods rather than seen as PC's seamlessly crosses the divide between work and home, more than 100 new models and makes at the CES 2011 show. The Android Platform is perhaps the main way in which Google via its own OS designed for mobile technology will be able to penetrate seriously the market that Apple has trail-blazed....Apple Ipad Ipod iphone iMac macbook $USD 300bn and rising not bad for a niche, fringe player that looked quite a while ago like it would be forced out of business for not adopting open standards...Interesting times ahead but not quite the full replacement for the Laptop yet...it is drawing in iphone graduates in the hoardes...
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