Touchscreen notebooks snag 10 percent of the laptop market, report claims
Consumers' growing use of touch screens is becoming a bright spot in the laptop market, and it may help Windows 8, Ian Paul writes. One report predicts shipments of touch-screen notebooks could exceed expectations this year, but some industry watchers downplay the growth. "Total volume of notebooks dropped considerably" the first quarter, IDC's David Daoud says. "Ten percent of a dwindling market does not represent a great deal of achievement." PCWorld (5/21)
- Nearly 10 percent of all laptops shipped worldwide during the first three months of 2013 were touch enabled, according to IHS DisplayBank (and as reported by DigiTimes).
- NPD’s DisplaySearch said in April that it expected touch-enabled touchscreen notebooks to surpass 12 percent by the end of 2013. If DisplayBank’s numbers are accurate, notebook touchscreen shipments could be on their way to beating early projections of 15 percent for all of 2013, IDC research director David Daoud toldPCWorld. (IDC and PCWorld are both owned by International Data Group.)
- Earlier in May, DisplaySearchpredicted touch-enabled notebook shipments would grow by 48 percent in 2014 compared to 2013.
- There's no doubt about it: Touch is here to stay. The big question, however, is whether finger-friendliness and ever-dropping prices will be big enough draws to help bolster astruggling PC market.
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