Comments on: Could tablets outsell PCs by next year? (Hint: yes)

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:25:54 +0000

Fair enough as I’m sure some I.T. shops are simply told what to buy and find a use for them; I worked in I.T for 15 years at Fortune 100′s and saw the same, but not to the tune of 10s of millions of devices. Guess we’ll see if people are still buying tablets for no apparent reason over the next 24 months and see. ;)

By: 239djd902jds9012213j

239djd902jds9012213j — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 04:56:26 +0000

So many data points, which can be interpreted in any way. Your “key” one, is people buying a product and looking to justify the expense. “I just bought a tablet, make it work with X” is not “I bought a tablet so I could accomplish X”.

The reason organizations like the FAA or the healthcare industry are purchasing tablets is budget justification. There was a recent story on Ask Slashdot where someone wanted to know how to lock down an android tablet to only display a certain webpage with anti-smoking videos. Most of the answers said “use a TV” and “the technology you’re looking for is called a pamphlet”. Hilarious answers coming from tech obsessed geeks, right? Well, the guy outright refused those solutions because the hospital had been sold some tablets and they were pretty much making this guy find a use for them.

http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/02/13/2328207/ask-slashdot-making-a-tablet-run-only-one-application

By: Slyone

Slyone — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:09:11 +0000

Ah yes, the ol’ Apple Toy comment continue to resurface with each new product. The Mac GUI was considered a toy OS by those in the DOS community. The iPhone was considered a toy by those early Windows Mobile users. Now the iPad’s turn, it’s much easier to pass things off as a toy when we don’t understand it nor it’s target audience.

There’s already a large percentage of users that are currently using iPads as their primary computers “PCs”. There are millions of consumers who bought laptops/notebooks or full blown desktop PCs in the past just for the purpose of doing email, browsing the web, researching etc. These consumers can do all this and more with a tablet such as the iPad.

By: Slyone

Slyone — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:51:43 +0000

I remember when laptops/notebooks were seen as secondary devices to desktop PCs. No way could they ever replace PCs. Take a look around today, almost everyone uses a laptop/notebook as their only “PC”.

By: Sofia Fenichell

Sofia Fenichell — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 09:23:39 +0000

I am curious – do you think all kids will drop netbooks in favour of tablets and that will be the device of choice for homework and school. Can they afford an iPad?

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:37:23 +0000

Tablets seem to be no more then an expensive smart phone currently they need to be more versatile and handle more real world applications before I can see them out selling PC’s

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 18:33:32 +0000

I respect your opinion but don’t see any evidence to agree. There are so many data points saying just the opposite. The key one is that most of the Fortune 100 companies have embraced tablets or are looking to do so. Forget consumers for a second, who are apparently buying tablets they don’t need during a period of economic downturn.

Why would businesses and other organizations, such as the FAA, be purchasing tablets if they weren’t able to be used for work?

By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:58:11 +0000

I would stand in line to get a well-speced tablet with Windows 8 on it. But my primary machine will still be a desktop for the foreseeable future. I plan on a tablet this year and my next desktop within a year or so.

By: 239djd902jds9012213j

239djd902jds9012213j — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 06:30:05 +0000

Did we intentionally write this article to get page views related to the buzz around yet another version of the Apple toy? yes.

No one will ever buy a tablet instead of a computer. The reason people are buying less computers is because their computer has reached a “good enough” point. The reason tablet sales are going up is just good advertising. Very few people need tablets, but buy them anyway. And most of these tablets are just coffee table Facebook Angry Birds machines.

If you need to write a paper, do some research, make a spreadsheet or edit an image or video a tablet will not cut it.

By: Lexi Heigh

Lexi Heigh — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 05:42:36 +0000

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