iPad Hammering Laptop Sales – Analysts

Macworld UK’s Melanie Pinola reports that numbers out show global laptop sales collapsing and analysts blame the iPad, which is shown to indeed be cannibalizing the traditional PC market, laptops in particular, with BusinessWeek reporting that global laptop sales have collapsed, causing a crisis for Taiwanese PC-makers Asustek and Acer, as well as HP and Dell, whose consumer PC sales are down 12% and 8% respectively, and with eMarketer, cited by BusinessWeek, estimating 178% growth for tablets this year, and with Apple maintaining a 74% share of that market.

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