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Domestic tablet shipments, what inch mainstream?

According to the ICT Research Institute, 7-inch size tablet will occupy the majority shipments of Japan in fiscal 2013 as their marketing research result. They estimated that 9-10 窶妬nch model which was major in previous year will become small majority. After second half of fiscal 2012, relatively inexpensive 7-inch model has been released one after another such as “iPad mini”, “Nexus 7”, and “Kindle Fire HD”. We assume that user accepted its convenient usability which has slightly bigger screen. Web design also is needed 7 inches tablet corresponding in near the future.
http://www.ictr.co.jp/report/20130425000037.html
*Japanese only.