A story released today by CMP's TechWeb says . . .

“The U.S. market for Internet appliances is entering a period of rapid takeoff, and the new devices are expected to surpass consumer PC shipments in 2002, a leading technology market research firm said on Monday.”

“Internet appliances are easy-to-use, lower cost devices designed solely for accessing the Internet. They do not typically have hard disk drives or some of the functions of more costly but harder to use PCs.”

“As an even broader group of companies seeks to address the 'Post-PC' era with these new devices, market research firm International Data Corp. (IDC) said it expected the worldwide market for information appliances to exceed 89 million units, or $17.8 billion in 2004 vs. 11 million units and $2.4 billion in 1999.”

* Read full story *

 
This article was originally published on LinuxDevices.com and has been donated to the open source community by QuinStreet Inc. Please visit LinuxToday.com for up-to-date news and articles about Linux and open source.