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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

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Half of those, the firm said, would be iPads. Apple sold just 50 million iPads. ” Gartner says, rather vaguely, that it relies on scenarios and surveys and pattern recognition to place technologies on the line. In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015.

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