The Tablet Will Replace Smartphones

The tablet market market hard IT becomes a tool has the highest growth rate globally throughout 2010. With 18.3 million tablets were sold last year, the iPad has the largest market share, which is about 90 per cent globally.

Considered one of the main market trends it for the coming year, nearly 100 new tablet is launched in 2011. Thus delivered Research Institute Frost & Sullivan in his latest report, Monday 7 March 2011.

According to the report, the iPad is expected to keep them backed market in the short and medium-sized enterprises. However, newcomers such as Cisco, Avaya, RIM and Android-based device is expected to also grab the market share is relatively fast in the short term.

In General, the tablets have a unique selling points is a very powerful especially for the sales sector of the industry focus has varied. The industry became a pioneer in the use of the tablet is the pharmaceutical sector, construction and consumer goods, which already has its own business success story.

Related applications, it is likely to be most commonly used are e-mail and sales support software, such as CRM and Business Intelligence tools.

"However, there are still factors which inhibit the penetration of the tablet in the corporate market, use, and access, that is the limited application developers the tablet, the low number of 3 g data plans, special subsidies for the telco and tablet tablet prices high in the local market," said Iwan Rachmat, Senior Consultant, Information & Communication Technologies Frost & Sullivan Indonesia.

In Indonesia, Iwan revealed that fever Tablet PC in Indonesia began to noticeably since the mid-2010, where Apple is starting to come up with the Apple iPad. From the beginning, the market is taking the internet fever has been menunggu-nunggu the presence of the iPad in the market, although with the anticipation of high prices.

A peek at its history, the iPad is present in the middle of hangatnya fever netbook or laptop with a mini version of a relatively affordable price and about 3-4 millions. Global brands ranging from Toshiba, HP, Sony, Acer, Asus, until local brands such as Toshiba, all offer a netbook with a wide range of versions.

"Indonesia's market also shows high demand for Smartphones that which one is the BlackBerry. Now the user has reached approximately 3 million and the majority is the youth segment, "explains Iwan.

According to Iwan, generally things that may encourage the use of Tablet PCs in Indonesia include:

-Access (broadband) is better; where the current penetration of wireless broadband has reached 17 percent in 2010

-the price; with iPad competitors such as the masifnya production of Samsung Tab, HP, Acer, Blackberry, tablet price, expected to become cheaper. The current iPad tablet is still considered a premium with price about 7 million. While the low-end Acer can be obtained at the price of 3 – 4 million.

-support operator; i.e. in the form of bundling program.

– Internet rates are cheap.

-the social Web; rampant use of Facebook (Indonesia's second-largest in the world below us) and Twitter also indirectly encourage the smartphone and tablet PC markets.

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