ABSTRACT
Industry data show dramatic increases in the adoption and use of computers led to the boom for tablets and for sub-notebooks, an emerging category of machines with functionality and size between a laptop and a tablet. Consider that:
The computing industry shipped 496 million desktops, laptops, sub-notebooks, and tablets in 2013-nearly one new device for every 14 people on Earth. (Include the 1.8 billion mobile phones shipped, and it’s nearly one device sold per three people on the planet (Gartner, 2014a).
