Consumers purchased 56 million tablets in 2011. According to a new report from Forrester Research, that number will significantly increase in the next several years.
Forrester says 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.”
While those numbers would still put the tablet behind the projected total numbers for PC’s, Forrester believes that tablets are fast becoming the computing device of choice for consumers, especially within emerging markets.
Because tablets are not as fully functional as an average PC, Forrester predicts that “a new class of consumer electronics” will emerge to “fill that gap,” according to TechCrunch. One such product is the “frame,” a dock which Forrester predicts will “become a common way to give tablets more features, more power and link them up to other devices, like TVs, to use them to consume content.”
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