"Companies can no longer afford to just think in terms of traditional PC form factors or architectures," Principal Analyst Ranjit Atwal argued. "With the rise of web-delivered applications, many users no longer need a traditional PC running a resident general-purpose operating system and fast x86 CPU, Apple's iPad is just one of many new devices coming to market that will change the entire PC ecosystem and overlap it with the mobile phone industry."
The statements echo Apple's own beliefs about tablets. Company chief Steve Jobs has put the iPad's importance on par with that of the iPhone and Mac and considers it more a general computing device than just a media browser. Tablet PCs have existed for several years, but in the Microsoft-endorsed convertible notebook format have rarely sold well beyond the niche markets of doctors and other very specialized fields.
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