HP: tablets will create a $40 billion market

By on Sep 27, 2010 at 3:12 PM
General September 27, 2010

We all know tablets are a hot technology topic right now, but does that mindshare momentum translate into cold hard cash? According to HP, the answer is yes. HP’s executive vice president of the Personal Systems Group, Todd Bradley, pegs the tablet market at $40 billion over the next few years. What else did HP’s EVP have to say? How about this: “Next year, Palm will sell 15 million printers that use WebOS,” and “the smartphone market is a $100 billion market.” Those are some pretty lofty numbers. Mr. Bradley also noted that his company’s strategy in acquiring webOS was to have a consistent interface for both phones and tablets. Hopefully, we’ll see that interface, running on production hardware, very soon.

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  • http://ilikeandroid.com dirtysanchez

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  • http://www.twitter.com/mrkal_el Kal El

    Tons of Printers in dumbsumers eyes with webOS on them will bring it to the forefront in their mind… Can’t wait!!!

  • prefan

    This company seems more interested in putting webos on everything but smartphones…

  • I told you so.com

    it states smartphones too. people have to understand how big HP is this is not google, or RIM who are in just phones they are scaling it world wide in a sense even bigger then apple. Yes phones are apart of that equation, but they will also scale webos on printers, tablets, and computers worldwide. Look at HP’s Quarter results each year, its a big difference between a Google or Rim they are huge. The type of capital HP has (and even the phones which most are worried mostly about, and the specs believe me are amazing some iphone 4 mixed evo specs) those numbers are feasable.

    • Perspective

      This guy’s post is why literacy still matters, even in the digital age.

      • StevenHamburg

        agreed. that second sentence is quite…um…dynamic.

  • Modern Man

    YEEEEAHEEER!

  • MacMan

    Not if those tablets preform like that vid from last week.

  • bearleton

    If the guy’s right, that means a lot less AMD and Intel procs sold.

  • http://www.androidgold.com AndroidGold – Android Tablet PCs

    We’re hoping to crack into a piece of this market with the best Android tablets under $200 over at http://www.androidgold.com – I’d expect China to be a much larger player in the Android tablet market than they’ve been able to be in mobile handsets. Mainly because the wireless carriers are not necessarily involved.

    • Jarrett

      You know that website is the exact reason Why Android is having an increasingly difficult time pulling away as it should.

      Quit trying to do what is already being done. Find out what is next and do that. I swear to Christ, people/companies sell themselves so short just to make a quick dollar. For F*cks sake, go do something great. Anyone can do something similar to what has already been done, go do the next thing.

  • Jarrett

    Well, considering Apple is approaching $6 Billion is sales of iPads already would suggest that Apple supplied this gentleman with the information he now has.

    By years end Apple will have roughly $12 Billion in tablet sales. Considering only nine months of availability and being a new product let us suggest only a doubling next year. That would be $24 Billion just from the iPad. Is this HP guy suggesting Apple will control 60% of this market once everyone else is in? I think that number is actually low.

  • Gauntlet Down

    So Bradley has confirmed that HPQ doesn’t know the difference between a User Interface and an operating system.

  • Steve

    HP will sell 15M printers with WebOS… not Palm.

  • …BobC

    Bu Bye Netbooks, we hardly had time to know you guys. I feel so sorry for those people that signed up with two-year agreements to get a cheap netbook.

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