#Apple #iPad CopyCats Spur Touchscreen Sales 5000 Percent

Kiss the mouse goodbye as touchscreens grace over a dozen new iPad copycats by the end of 2010, with as many as 50 models slated to debut in 2011. Look for touchscreens to become the standard human interface within three years. R.C.J.


Here's what iSuppli says about its own report: iPad and Competitors Spur Touch Screen Boom - Pave Way for Wider PC Usage...Driven by soaring sales of Apple Inc.’s iPad and competing products, shipments of touch screens for such systems are set to rise by nearly 5,000 percent in 2010, according to iSuppli Corp. Global shipments of touch-screen systems for slate-type devices are expected to rise to 8.9 million units in 2010, up from just 176,000 in 2009, according to iSuppli. Shipments then will rise by a factor of seven to reach 63.9 million units in 2013...
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