A new report from analyst firm Juniper Research forecasts that shipments of ultrabooks will grow three times the rate of tablets over the next five years. The initial reception and anticipation of the cadre of ultrabooks announced at CES is impressive, but if we look closer at the stats the tablet really isn’t in any danger of being relegated to irrelevance by the new class of laptops any time soon.
For starters, Juniper caveats the statement comparing the growth rates of ultrabooks and tablets by pointing out that tablets are still expected to ship higher volume than ultrabooks. Juniper predicts that there will be 253 million tablets shipped in 2016, compared with a mere 178 million ultrabooks.
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