As Apple launched the iPad half a year ago, tablet has attracted millions of customers. According to a research from Gartner, conducted by Ranjit Atwal, the sale of the tablet will take the place of that of PC by 10% by 2014. There seems to be a trend that tablet will become the fashion.

Finding such a great chance, all kinds of major IT industries have determined to have a finger in the pie. RIM, Samsung, Dell, Toshiba, Orange, Cisco, Lenovo, and Google have all made the schedule of launching their own tablets.

 Apple still own the advantage of first launching the tablet, and are making efforts to develop the support technology and application program of the iPad as well. according to the current situation, it is forecasted that the dominating position of iPad will hardly be broken until 2012.

 However, iPad is still more like the enlarged form of an iPhone and have more common design elements with communication tools. Therefore, it gives some chance to those PC makers which will certainly add more computer elements to the tablet in order to make differentiated competition.

 Thus, Apple still needs to be careful in this fierce competition.