Touch the Future
Posted by Zealot on 05/28/08 in General, Operating Systems, Smart Phones, UMPC, iPhone
It appears that touch screen devices are poised to dominate personal computing for the next few years…and numbers are beginning to roll in to support that forecast.
iSupply Corporation is projecting that more then 300 million touch screens worth more than 3 billion dollars will be shipped in 2008. These numbers are expected to balloon over the next 5 years, to 800 million units and 6 billion dollars in 2013. That’s A LOT of flicking and pinching.
Factors behind this growth, or so it seems to me, include the continuing onslaught of the iPhone, the upcoming arrival of a whole crop of multitouch phones across the industry, the introduction of the Microsoft Surface to the consumer market and the announcement that the next generation of the Windows OS will be very touch-screen friendly. Clearly, touch screens have hit a nerve with the consumer market due to the iPhone that a whole gaggle of Treos rarely even got close to. Steve Jobs continues to be either the smartest or the luckiest tech-guru around.
See the entire iSuppli press release HERE. They also plan to release a more complete report on the touch screen display market next week which may be a hot read in the industry considering Microsoft’s announcements yesterday at All Things D.
So what do you think? Will every computer you touch by 2013 have a touch screen? If they do is this a good thing, or a bad thing? Personally, I can do without them, but I tend to leave greasy fingerprints on everything anyway.
Written by Zealot · Filed Under General, Operating Systems, Smart Phones, UMPC, iPhone
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