Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Oct 2009 20:33 UTC
Ah, the tablet computer. For over two decades now have companies tried to get the public to buy the darn things, and yet, despite all the efforts, promises, analysts, and even personal involvement by Bill Gates, they simply never took off. Recently, the tablet has seen renewed attention - but will they succeed now?
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2006-01-06
I think people are VERY used to having a separate keyboard and pointing device as their interface.
My past experience with touch devices:
- lots of finger prints
- scratched up
- bad image quality due to image protector
add kids to the mix and the device gets hidden away.
Add the high price to the above and that's what makes the tablets not attractive. I'm afraid tablet computers will have to be sub $200 for them to really take off.
I really believe this market is currently being passed up just as the netbook market is. If anything this would be the perfect market for arm based devices with a completely new interface (based on open source kernel) which should be able to easily hit the $200 mark. Making killer applications is probably the hard part.