Tablets reduce sales of computers

Statistics was published on sales of computers (desktops, laptops and netbooks) in the fourth quarter of 2010 from Gartner and IDC . The data of the two companies differ somewhat in numbers, but they agree on the main point: compared to the same period of 2010, sales of computers in the USA decreased by several percent - and this despite the fact that the economy got out of the crisis. Experts say the main reason for the growing popularity of tablets is that they are not bought as the main device, but as the second or third device, people began to prefer them over laptops.
Experts also note that there was a growth in the corporate market - as far as I understand, this means that the fall in the personal market was much larger than the average figures presented.

Outside the US, tablets are not yet so popular, and in general, sales of computers have increased slightly - however, less than one would expect from a world that got out of crisis.
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Given that the range of tablets from well-known companies is becoming much wider, in 2011 they expect to increase this effect.