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IDC predicts Apple iPad to be launched in 2010, and will have over 300,000 iPhone apps

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Research firm IDC has issued a report which contains few interesting predictions about Apple’s rumored Tablet. Its going to be called iPad and will have over 300,000 iPhone apps when it gets launched sometime in 2010. It also predicts that by the end of 2010 there will be over one billion mobile devices accessing the Internet. Check out few interesting predictions:

• The “iPad” will finally arrive. Last year, we predicted that we would not see the then-rumored Apple tablet in 2009. This year, however, we predict that Apple will finally introduce this new device family, which is more of an oversized (8in., 10in.) iPod Touch than a downsized Mac — and if you look at the developer energy around the iPhone/Touch platform, this should be no surprise at all.
• Over 1 billion mobile devices will access the Internet in 2010. IDC predicts that, for the first time, there will be over 1 billion mobile devices accessing the Internet by year-end, gaining quickly on the 1.3 billion PCs accessing the Internet (the former are growing at 2.5 times the rate of the latter).
• Developer — and application — momentum will continue to shift dramatically to mobile devices. At least as important as the number of mobile devices are the frenzied developer energy and application volume building around mobile platforms — most obviously, but by no means exclusively, around the iPhone.

  The long-rumored Apple touchscreen tablet computer, or iPad, will arrive in 2010. It will be more of an oversized iPod Touch, with an 8-inch or 10-inch screen, than a downsized Macintosh. With its larger screen, IDC says, the Apple tablet will be ideal for watching movies, surfing the Web, playing online games, and reading books, magazines and newspapers. It will be general-purpose, unlike Amazon.com’s single-purpose Kindle reader. The Apple offering, Mr. Gens says, “could deliver a real kick in Kindle’s butt.”

[via -IDC]

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