Is the tablet pc platform is trouble?
Is the tablet pc platform is trouble? Well, I think these types of sales figures can be fixed with a couple of things.. one is cheaper prices and the other is a killer app that will encourage people to purchase the tablet pc platform. I think onenote has the potential to be this killler app and maybe the next version that we hear rumours about will deliver that potential.
‘Once heralded by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates as the future of portable computing, Tablet PCs now appear to be a niche market that has slim prospects for significant growth even through the end of the decade.
Forecasts at the time of the Windows XP Tablet Edition launch expected sales to hit 5 million in 2005, 9 million in 2006, and 14 million by 2007. However, sales so far this year are not even in line to hit one million.’
Read the whole article at betanews.com here