Analysts predict: PlayBook will up to 3 million sales this year

Once RIM was the king of the smartphone market, but with the extensive use of Apple‘s iPhone and Google Android mobile phone be to the market, RIM gradually loss of its former luster. PlayBook did not win the favor of evaluation, because the product is currently only available for Wi-Fi access, and lack of RIM’s e-mail and management applications.

But the news from the Best Buy and Staples, PlayBook orders of this week performed extremely well, which means that the product could launch some impact to the iPad. It is reported that, in addition to the United States and Canada approximately 20,000 retail stores will sell the PlayBook, RIM also sold directly to corporate users.

Since iPad listed at last April, Apple sold nearly 15 million iPad. According Reuters survey data, market analysts expect RIM will sell out this year about 3 million. The analyst of IDC  – Al Hilwa said, ” PlayBook and iPad would not be a heavy-weight product. The key is whether PlayBook can compete with Google Android operating system products.”

In addition, another market research firm Gartner expects each 10 touch screen devices in 2015, there will be a RIM using the QNX operating system. total sales of touch screen devices in 2015, is expected to reach 300 million. By then, Apple will occupy about half of the market share; Android’s share will be less than 40%, the rest of the market were RIM, HP WebOS and devices using Windows operating system partition.

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