On Friday Microsoft celebrated the one millonth Tablet sold. Purportedly the one-millionth Tablet was sold in February. [Evan Feldman]
Let’s see, one million Tablets times an average of $2,000 per Tablet in terms of hardware and software gives a two billion dollar market. Not bad.
I’ve been beginning to wonder though how these numbers break out in terms of hardware and software. Are the analysts accumulating statistics on how much Tablet-specific software is being sold? I wonder, are Tablet consumers purchasing and using “non-Tablet-only” software, such as Office, Photoshop, etc or are they purchasing products, such as MathJournal and GoBinder? How do these numbers break down by market? Does the education market purchase the largest percentage of true-Tablet software or does the honor go to something like the healthcare industry? I’m going to guess the former.
In fact, if the numbers are playing out the way that the OEMs were describing the market at the Microsoft Windows Anywhere Conference–that they are primarily selling Tablets to their existing large customers–then there probably is a larger opportunity for Tablet consultants than selling Tablet software products because there is likely to be a large amount of custom integration work that needs to be done.