In an interview given to the publication BusinessWeek Yang Yuanqing, CEO of Lenovo, claims that the iPad 2 tablet is the leader of a niche market that will never dethrone the PC market. Lenovo is one of the largest PC manufacturers in the world and probably has not yet realized that tablets are starting to attract the attention of more and more people who prefer to buy them instead of a notebook/laptop or computer. It is true that tablets cannot completely replace a computer at the moment, but 2011 showed that tablets can seriously affect the PC market and Lenovo suffered a lot. iPad 2 is the leader on the tablet market, where so far no other tablet model has managed to arouse the interest of as many consumers. In 2011, many Android tablets were launched, but none were good enough to be bought in tens of millions of copies.
Tablets will not replace the traditional. The traditional PC is changing to adapt to customer requirements. The tablet is an extra market for some niche customers. This will become a trend to replace part of the notebook market. Apple is the leader. For the Android ecosystem, we still need to learn something, we still need to improve something.
The CEO of Lenovo believes that ultrabooks will steal a part of the notebook market this year and in the following years, and from this point of view he is right. People want the most portable devices that offer the best possible battery life, and from the MacBook Air, many have learned what to offer customers. Now tablets have a higher growth rate than PCs and if those from Lenovo will not manage to come to the market in the future with tablets as interesting as Yoga Flip then he might have a lot to lose from all points of view.
