Analysts at Deloitte are completely convinced that the world will go for tablet computers now that Steve Jobs is going to release a giant iPod touch.

The outfit claims that "Tens of millions" of tablet computers will be sold in 2010. It claims that consumers will be falling over themselves to buy computers with out keyboards or mice at outrageously inflated prices.

The problem is that people have been ignoring tablets for decades and the only reason that Deloitte would make such a prediction is because Apple is set to unveil a tablet at a press event it is hosting on 27 January. It claims that the e-reader will be the killer application that will get people onto the tablet. However e-readers use e-paper which makes it easer to read the text. They also don't chew up batteries so fast and are a lot lighter.

Jolyon Barker from Deloitte's Technology, Media and Telecommunications department is responsible for the prediction. Barker knows that Tablets have done badly so far.  Mostly because they have been made as work-oriented data-entry devices.

However the world apparently is ready for an easy-to-use, consumer-focused device used primarily for media and web browsing. Nah we don't see that Apple releasing a Tablet will change the industry that much.