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Well, no, there isn't really much of a tablet market. It's an emerging market; a year ago it didn't even exist until the iPad single-handedly created it. Everyb
by zephyrfalcon 16y ago
Well, no, there isn't really much of a tablet market. It's an emerging market; a year ago it didn't even exist until the iPad single-handedly created it. Everybody else is still trying to catch up. Right now your choices are basically, an iPad, or something else that probably isn't nowhere near as good (unless you count Kindles and Nooks which are much more specialized devices).
However, in a few years or so, I can totally see casual users ditching their (in their eyes) complicated PCs and netbooks in favor of a tablet of some kind, as long as it does what they want (watch a video, send email, go on Facebook, listen to music, play a game, etc).
- Pewpewarrows 16y agoThe iPad popularized the Tablet market, it didn't create it. Tablets have existed since 2000.
- jawee 16y agoAlthough not a tablet in the current sense, I´ve been happily using my Maemo-powered ¨Internet Tablet¨ since before Apple made touchscreens.
- seabee 16y agoThe problem is tablet PCs, Nokia Internet Tablets and iPads are all different concepts of a 'tablet', confusingly called the same thing. Compare to Macs and PCs which are both clearly 'personal computers'.
- zephyrfalcon 16y agoTechnically yes, but they were all considered failures. I recall that before it became clear what Apple was making (somewhere late 2009), there was a lot of speculation along the lines of, "well it can't possibly be a tablet PC, because nobody has ever had success with that".
- foljs 16y agoCreating a market equals popularizing it. A market of 10 people is not much of a market at all.
- _delirium 16y agoIt wasn't a huge market, but it wasn't trivial either. The numbers I can find are around $1.5 billion/year sales in the mid-2000s.