Buoyed
by growing preference for tablets in education and enterprise sectors,
the Indian tablet PC market is expected to cross $2 billion in revenues
this year, global research firm TechSci Research said.
"The
acceptance and usage of tablet PCs in various sectors will contribute
to the market growth and it is expected that India Tablet PC market will
cross $2 billion revenues by the end of 2013," the firm said in a
report.
Increasing usage and preference for
tablets in the education sector, private enterprises and growing demand
from the smartphone and laptop users would drive the market for tablet
PC over the coming years, it added.
India is
one of the fastest growing economies, it said, adding that as a result
of rapidly improving technology, booming service industry and the need
for easy and fast networking, the demand for lightweight computing
devices is increasing.
According to MAIT, the
apex body representing India's IT hardware industry, training and
R&D services sectors, tablet sales in 2012-13 stood at 1.9 million
units as against 0.36 million units in 2011-12 witnessing a growth of
427 per cent.
CyberMedia Research (CMR) said
Indian tablet market size rose 107.4 per cent year-on-year to over
1,150,000 tablets in the second quarter this year.
Global
research firm IDC said the overall tablet market in India reached about
2.66 million units last year and is expected to reach a around 6
million units in 2013, driven by low cost tablet space and a slew of
public sector projects.
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