2013 will be a watershed for smartphones and tablets,
designating them a decided advantage over PCs. It is for them the future of
IT-market, analysts from Morgan Stanley.
According to research Morgan Stanley, this year the number
of mobile Internet users will exceed the number of first time users connecting
to the network via traditional computers. Certainly not in 2013 will be the
year sunset PC, but this is the year the trend took shape on gradual
replacement of standard computing devices smartphones and tablets. Here the
first time users of mobile gadgets will still account for less traffic and time
spent on the internet, but then shift the "center of gravity" is
expected for these indicators.
Smartphones are becoming more and more functionality from
year to year and, therefore, and also because of their mobility, are a
promising platform, analysts say. Such trends will undoubtedly have
far-reaching implications for technology companies, which the growing influence
of mobile device is divided into winners and losers.
According to Morgan Stanley, meanwhile undisputed winner in
the IT-industry can be considered a child of Steve Jobs - Apple. Its tablet
computer iPad dominates the global tablet market, and the extremely popular
smartphone iPhone accounts for almost three quarters of the mobile industry
profits - even in spite of the fact that it accounts for less than 10% of
global handset sales. With this in 2012, Apple has set a new world record for
an unprecedented level of capitalization, breaking the mark of $ 700 billion
The most obvious "losers" in 2013-th will be the
era of the PC giants Dell, HP and Microsoft, not in time to refocus the
business on mobile rails, as well as manufacturers of conventional phone time
does not give sufficient attention to the Internet in their products, such as
Finnish Nokia.
