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Maybe some selection bias? Tablets have been in use since at least early Windows XP days. I'm not sure I'd call them common, back then, but they were hardly uni
by KGIII 9y ago
Maybe some selection bias? Tablets have been in use since at least early Windows XP days. I'm not sure I'd call them common, back then, but they were hardly unique. We used them in the field when collecting data.
- coldtea 9y ago>Tablets have been in use since at least early Windows XP days. I'm not sure I'd call them common, back then, but they were hardly unique. We used them in the field when collecting data. People collecting "data in the field" is not the hundreds million unit market it is post iPad. Tablets existed for 10+ years before the iPad, Microsoft especially pushed various monstrosities -- nobody really used them though.
- KGIII 9y agoI did mention they weren't common, but I'm not a nobody and I really used them. They had a whole Tablet Edition, for XP. They were used in quite a few industries, by real people who were doing real work. So, no, not common - but not nobody, either.
- coldtea 9y ago>but I'm not a nobody and I really used them Yeah, "nobody used them" in casual speech just means very few people. Obviously since they were made some people bought and used them. But the numbers were not worth writing home about -- and one would be hard-pressed to see random people using them in the wild (exceptions by field workers, some kinds of researchers, etc, mostly professional/factory/etc uses).
- KGIII 9y agoAnd my response only pertained to them having only seen them in one place and how that might be selection bias. While not common, they were certainly in use outside of research labs. Motion did pretty well with them and made great hardware.