In the hard disk drive market, 8GB hard disks drive are the default today, but there is a shift towards 10 GB and above. Samsung was a distant second with a 11 per cent market share. But the favourites from the peripherals markets seem to be the scanners. That segment of the peripheral market is zooming way ahead. Scanner demand has doubled in a span of one year.
Price is an issue.
Scanners costing less than Rs 10,000 accounted for about 85 per cent of the total shipments. Well, there's better technology and enhanced quality. The printing field may see some more specialisation, with efficient printing solutions, emergence of Net printers, photo printers, and mobile printers. Like other areas, convergence is the buzz word too in the peripherals market. There will be an overlap between the hard copy functions like printing, copying, scanning, and faxing.