Saturday, January 29, 2011

Why this demand for tablets?


iPad’s launch last year April added one more Apple must-have into people’s list fanning sales to 27 million units within July. Google’s survey recorded 9% net-book shoppers and 19% notebook shoppers preferred tablets. This definitely marks a change in shopping patterns and the tablet segment is now a crowded market with net-book sales figures deflating rapidly. So a question generally arises: “Why tablets? Are they the new way to do old things or something that’s new altogether?” A plain answer would be: They are extended versions of notebook computers with added features and exclusive, embedded operating systems.

Functionality defines acceptance

Let’s see what a Tablet PC does (or what you can do with it). It grants the freedom of using a pen as an input device instead of a keyboard. To type, one just needs snapping out a lightweight, removable keyboard or a virtual one on the screen. Or, you may just handwrite a command (in symbols, though; e.g. e-mail). This is the other factor besides an enhanced mobility that allows carrying the Internet, the LAN connection, office suites, multiple applications, web browsers, entertainment and games to be carried around as long as they are not too demanding on resources. A slate model and an external keyboard/docking station can take you much farther than ordinary laptops and this is the  factor that’s making both pure tablets and convertible notebooks gain an upper hand over conventional laptops and net-books. The tablet; however, is not for conservative tech consumers who abhor experiencing the unsettled frontiers.

6 comments:

George said...

What i dont get is, why does when one guy(company!) introduces something, everybody climbs on the same train, rather than get on with another!

George said...

What i mean is when the ipad is introduced everybody starts bringing in their pads and tabs which all are the same essentially rather than making some 'sort of pad' that is 'foldable' or something!
Why do these guys pay their product designers if they cant come with something diffeent!

Anonymous said...

nice and intresting......

Anonymous said...

Such an informative blog!

Gizmo-King said...

@George : Your first comment in itself is pretty clear...see for instance if apple would have been the only company supplying customers around the globe with "tablets"...ppl wont have much to select from...that being said, its not that every product is the same, you'd get plenty good variants,functions, operating system's etc on various products and "foldable" is just one of those options...just to keep ppl interested !!!

Gizmo-King said...

Thanks for the positive feedback's, appreciate it a lot !!!