Bizarrely enough, IDC counts PCs among all the other devices there

Oct 11, 2013 14:04 GMT  ·  By

It looks like some people have rather bizarre ideas of what the word “mobile” means, but I suppose IDC has enough analytical clout to get away with it.

International Data Corporation has published its forecast about the Japanese mobile market for the year 2013.

According to it, the mobile market will rise 7.5% compared to 2012. At least when considering smartphone, tablets, data communication products and, apparently, PCs. All of them together will supposedly reach 56.1 million units.

Over the next five years, the market will only grow further, to 65.2 million by 2017.

Smartphones will see the highest jump, of 26.8% (to 6.5 million), while tablets will grow 97% on-year (1.8 million).

To avoid giving more meaningless numbers, the idea is that hardware and gadgets are doing fine in the Country of the Rising Sun, regardless of past woes in the way of tsunamis, earthquakes and nuclear meltdowns.