The upper limit of tablet penetration?

Henry Blodget speculates that price is the only thing limiting more tablets in the marketplace is price and that lower prices would ameliorate the plateauing that’s happening now:

Here’s My Theory For Why Tablet-Market Growth Just Collapsed …

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-tablet-market-growth-slow-2014-5#ixzz31WU60BVf

“Analysts have several theories for why growth in this recently ballistic market has suddenly tanked. They cite “increased penetration rates,” “high price points,” and “lack of innovation,” for example.

And all those factors are indeed likely contributing.

But here’s what I think is the real reason tablet growth has cratered:

Tablets do not yet solve a pressing need that is not already solved by a laptop or smartphone.”

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“What would change this?

Price.”

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-tablet-market-growth-slow-2014-5#ixzz31WUhpuBt

Stephen