Tablets like the iPad are growing rapidly enough that they could be more popular than PCs, Apple COO Tim Cook told Goldman Sachs analyst Bill Shope after a recent interview. Recounting a meeting that also included CFO Peter Oppenheimer and retail Senior VP Ron Johnson, Shope was told that there was "no reason why the tablet market shouldn't eclipse the PC market over the next several years." The prediction helped lead analyst to estimate Apple would ship 8.1 million iPads in the spring, or nearly three quarters more than the 3.3 million Apple shipped in the tablet's
