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I'm going to be a contrarian and predict that tablets fail to gain traction outside of a small niche market. The Apple tablet will be an amazing piece of techn
by teuobk 17y ago
I'm going to be a contrarian and predict that tablets fail to gain traction outside of a small niche market. The Apple tablet will be an amazing piece of technology, sure, but I don't think that people are going to want to carry around a device of that size without having a physical keyboard for input.
- rphlx 17y agoSeems every ~10 years, a major computer company has to re-discover this themselves. There exist some turds which even Steve Jobs cannot polish.
- blasdel 17y agoGorilla Arm alone makes tablets a total nonstarter. Even if you don't have to awkwardly cradle the thing in your arms while you use it, you still have to hold out your arm to poke at it. Microsoft only persisted with their Tablet PC crap for so long because the thing was designed for their middle managers to fiddle with in their constant meetings.
- jodrellblank 17y agoAt the point where the display is as e-ink readable as paper, the touch part is as sensitive as an iphone, the screen is also as sensitive to pen input as a wacom tablet, and the software is good enough for touch-doodling, pen-drawing, typing, sketching, all interchangably and neatening up diagrams for you, then you will have it on your desk instead of a notepad, instead of a phone message pad, you will look down and work on it like a jotter instead of cradling it like a child or mouting it vertically at head height and arms length. But we're not there yet.