Tablet-Crazed Market Feeds a Frenzy

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Apple will still have more than 60% of the tablet market in 2012, says iSuppli despite Acer's chairman prediction that Apple will shrink to 20% when market stabilizes.

Certainly all the big guns will aim at iPad: vendors working on tablets include Acer, Dell, HP, LG, Motorola, Blackberry and Samsung.

But that list lulls distracts from the real deluge that will come from Asian OEMs using any OS they can bend to the task (think Android, Chrome, MeeGo, Brew, Windows7 etc) and any form of channel (think private label for disties, retailers, telcoe, etailers, telcoms and all-comers.)

Orange will launch three devices before the end of 2010, one of which will be an Android under its own brand, targeting the mass-market for 100 euros with a 2-year service contract. Bloomberg notes AT&T is bullisheough to claim tablets will kill notebooks. That's right, notebooks, not netbooks, to be done in by$1000 tablets on high end.

Go iSuppli: Apple to Dominate Tablets through 2012