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80-90% of websites use keyboard as an input mechanism. I'm not seeing why a tablet is so massively better than a netbook/laptop.
by axod 16y ago
80-90% of websites use keyboard as an input mechanism.
I'm not seeing why a tablet is so massively better than a netbook/laptop.
- guywithabike 16y agoWhat's your source for that statistic? Or did you just make it up?
- joeguilmette 16y ago96% of statistics are made up.
- foljs 16y agoActually, that's 93%.
- spa942 16y agoA lot of people were not seeing that, which is probably why Apple was able to launch a 10" $500 tablet without any competitors in the market.
- axod 16y agoIt's still a rich persons toy though, or bought as an additional computer rather than to replace something else. I don't see it going mainstream, or replacing laptops.
- Xuzz 16y agoHow much input do you actually do on these websites? Facebook, for a major example, is just a sentence or two for each status update, and a word or two for the chat messages.
- axod 16y agoa laptop isn't the way it is just to house a keyboard. It's that way so you can sit it on your lap with the screen positioned to view it. I'm not gonna hold a tablet in my hands while I try and use it. (I spend the vast majority of my time sat on a sofa with a laptop).
- Xuzz 16y agoFunny, I spend the majority of my time on the couch using an iPad (and happily tapping away on my lap, if I have to use the keyboard, which I usually don't).
- axod 16y agoThat sounds like a really bad position for your neck - staring down at your lap.
- joeguilmette 16y agohttp://www.goincase.com/ipad/ http://www.goincase.com/ipad/
- jsz0 16y agoRemoving the abstraction of a pointing device and interacting directly with the GUI is a big deal. If you watch most people use a computer they spend the vast majority of their time tracking a pointing device and occasionally typing some text. Laptops are designed around the idea that most users are going to spend the vast majority of their time entering text and occasionally using a pointing device to track on-screen. Of course for some people this is perfectly appropriate because they do spend the vast majority of their time entering text.
- axod 16y agoSo just make more touchscreen laptops. A tablet is just irritating because it cant stand up on its own.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoI've got a touchscreen laptop. It lets my 3-year old muck around with Tux Paint and educational Flash games but it's not much more useful than that. You'd really need both a transformable hardware setup, and two entirely different UI paradigms for it to make sense. And it would still be hard to compete with a netbook plus a tablet for most folks.