A growing variety of smaller and cheaper Android tablets from Google to Amazon.com Inc will catch on this year with more consumers and chip away at Apple's dominance since the first iPad launched in 2010.
International Data Corp. analyst Conrad Chang thinks so, based mainly on the mainland's solid investment in skills and infrastructure.
The Asia-Pacific region will have the highest number of broadband subscribers this year as telecom operators cut charges and mobile user-base increases in number, said an International Data Corp report on Wednesday.
In 2004, India's IT spending is expected to grow 19.5 per cent, while that of China is forecast to expand 16.9 per cent, IDC said.\n\n\n\n
Quanta also manufactures laptops for Hewlett-Packard and is the main assembler for the smartwatch released recently by Apple.
There is a high demand for IT professionals who can envision, design and develop applications for the future.
Still, the earliest India will get to experience Apple online will be early 2020 and the company's first fully-owned signature store should be up around 2022 -- almost two decades after it had opened its first store worldwide, writes Nivedita Mookerji.