Positive forecasts for Apple in 2010

Research company IDC has provided forecast on the future work of Apple. Under assumptions of its employees, in 2010 will be very fruitful for the giant from Cupertino: the number of applications in the App Store will reach 300 thousand, more than 1 billion mobile devices will have access to the Internet, and the light finally see Apple Tablet.

So, since the creation of an online store App Stopre applications (one and a half years ago) the number of programs it has increased considerably. A year ago, applications were 10,000, the number reached 100 thousand in November this year. This 900% increase. So it is quite possible to rely on the fact that by the end of 2010, the App Store will be sold already 300 000 programs. (In general, application developers - known companies from the list Frobes Global 2000.)

Also, it is assumed that the number of mobile devices connected to the Internet will exceed the number of PCs in 2010, said IDC chief analyst Frank Gens (Frank Gens).

Finally, according to IDC employees, Apple's tablet computer still goes on sale. This is a gadget with a touch of 8- or 10-inch screen, rather close to iPod, than wt. The tablet should be used for watching movies, reading newspapers, magazines and books, computer games, and browsing the Internet. The only question which is still covered with darkness secret, even for analysts to IDC, is how Apple plans to use 3G-network in the plates - with branded networks like AppleNet or to subscribe to the services of operators communication via web store iTunes.