Getting people 2 use tablets and getting one for me.

The specific people referred here are doctors and as long as they are the hoped-for market what’s the chance of the price coming down? I want to start a service transcribing all those doctor’s offices medical files to digital, with appropriate back up and not just server based, and you would think that with tablet sales being slower than a 14,7 baud modem the PC companies would be lining up at my door. Hey Eddie! this guy has an in for selling tablets to doctors buy keeping all their work off paper! Load up the van and lets go see him before the cows come home to roost!

But Noooooooo. I can’t even get their sales departments to e-mail back except with ad copy, nothing specific to my questions. Oh, wait. Now I understand why tablet sales are flatter than a floppy disk. I’ve tried several of the PC companies and that one software company that seems to be pushing them; That’s ok sir. we will tell you which questions to ask our phone tree menu. And thank you for calling (name withheld but the two words separately both describe the condition of their heads).

So Scott I am reduced to calling in favors from people who have never me and owe me nothing. Can you refer me to one or two sales reps who might be of some help? You have already given me some help as I have read your post on jkontherun.

thanks,

Glenn

I’ll give your suggestion a try though… Maybe.

Regards,

Andrew

I think we are all accustomed to thinking that we NEED to convert every ink into text or graphics so searching for that information later is simplified.

I’m finding that if I don’t convert the ink, I won’t go back and do it which makes my notes and Sony U50 not much better than my Franklin Planner was in the mid-90′s.

When I switched to the Palm Pilot in 1996, I threw away my Franklin because finding notes from meetings was as quick as a search.

I’m finding this balance for Tablet use hard, but agree with you that not EVERYTHING needs to be converted.

http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2004/10/pdas_tablets_an.html

I could not agree with your analysis more, I give Tablet demos in Universities all the time and the biggest crime IMHO that Msft has done is not seperate the idea of leaving your handwriting alone. (The second crime is that Msft is not hyping the Tablet with a media spread on TV to popularize it. “This is not your fathers laptop”) Everyone first wants to know about text conversion and I spend a lot of time talking about handwriting mangement. This I think is what the Tablet especially with OneNote is all about. You said it well and I am enjoying your blog.

I don’t put the entire article in RSS for two reasons:

1) I want you to visit the site and you won’t if the entire article is in RSS.

2) I subscribe to a ton of RSS feeds and I get swamped with material because some people do put their entire articles in the feed. For that reason I wish they wouldn’t do that.

It’s all a matter of personal choice.