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I wonder if this might be a common occurrence which should warn Ms against rushing headlong into the tablet market.
My friend was going to buy an Ipad or the samsung tablet -- but I let him play around with the III -s smartphone.
OK the screen real estate is a bit smaller than a tablet but he decided that the smart phone was fine for anything he might have used a tablet for and for the rest a computer was fine.
One less customer for the tablet market -- he'd never seen the latest crop of smartphones --the latest smartphone from HTC is pretty good too.
I think tablets have peaked by now --I'm not going to apply complex statistical analysis based on ONE observation --but I have heard a lot of similar comments from people in the same boat -- a new smartphone does what they would use a tablet for and it's also A PHONE.
These types of comments must make Ms and others redefine the purpose of a tablet surely -- like give it an optional wireless keyboard and external storage (and then what is iit !!!! - you've guessed it--- a touch PC !!!! -- by incorporating that little pad the old IBM thinkpads had on their keyboards you could also have a decent "Mouse"!!.
Cheers
jimbo
I wonder if this might be a common occurrence which should warn Ms against rushing headlong into the tablet market.
My friend was going to buy an Ipad or the samsung tablet -- but I let him play around with the III -s smartphone.
OK the screen real estate is a bit smaller than a tablet but he decided that the smart phone was fine for anything he might have used a tablet for and for the rest a computer was fine.
One less customer for the tablet market -- he'd never seen the latest crop of smartphones --the latest smartphone from HTC is pretty good too.
I think tablets have peaked by now --I'm not going to apply complex statistical analysis based on ONE observation --but I have heard a lot of similar comments from people in the same boat -- a new smartphone does what they would use a tablet for and it's also A PHONE.
These types of comments must make Ms and others redefine the purpose of a tablet surely -- like give it an optional wireless keyboard and external storage (and then what is iit !!!! - you've guessed it--- a touch PC !!!! -- by incorporating that little pad the old IBM thinkpads had on their keyboards you could also have a decent "Mouse"!!.
Cheers
jimbo
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