Look around, though. Look at the adverts for smartphones and data plans that spring up on every web page you visit. Look at the coverage of media tablets just that you find on every technology website that has any sort of consumer readership – and even some that don't, because media tablets are finding their way into peoples' homes and businesses, just as the first PCs did almost 30 years ago.
The overall growth in PC sales will be cut dramatically over the next two years as people in the US and Europe choose tablets such as Apple's iPad 2 rather than buying laptops.The slowdown marks a new trend in which PCs limitations are being exposed. the company said, because they do not offer the portability or battery life that smartphones – which have already begun outselling PCs – and now tablets offer.