RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: The Winds of Change"Because a tablet is useless to do any real work unless you have a docking station, hence you're stuck working at 1 place."
Are you out of your mind? Seriously? Did you see the results AAPL released yesterday and the # of iPads sold?
Let me clarify for the non-technically illiterate that read this board:
1. To date tablets have augmented current workforce tools. That means people are adding to their inventory, i.e. more chips sold. Period.
2. Take an iPad for example, they have an entire office suite available that's compatible with MS Office. I've modified, and then projected Powerpoint presentations via my ipad and a little $15 VGA port adapter. If you have an iphone you can even install an app that controls your ipad presentation. It works.
3. There are PLENTY of iPad (and I'm sure other tablets based on Droid) cases that have an integrated bluetooth keyboard. The ipad can sit up on a built in case stand, and there's a full QWERTY keyboard ready to go right there.
4. In case you've been living in the stone ages, or just watching PBS every night, virtualization is taking the tech industry by storm. There's a Citrix connector for free on tablets, and I've deployed this to link people in to virtualized application streams and/or virtual desktop environments. Can't run a fat client on an ipad? Sure. Then again a lot of those fat client's can't run on a laptop remotely either because of the network connectivity requirements -- not the processing speed and they too have to use a thin client. There's a ton of other companies following suit, such as VMWare and hell even Microsoft with Applocker/App-V.
5. The ipad processor is 1ghz. Speed isn't everything here, multi-core and multi-threaded applications are where the real speed gains have been coming from. Hell there's an Intel Mobile i7 chip (that's a recent release) that only runs at 1.5ghz. Read up on Moore's law a little bit.
Tablets aren't going anywhere, I do see the demand for home desktops dropping off significantly. I'm really good with that, know why? Tablet releases are fast and furious, and people will *always* want to be toting around the latest tablet toy. So instead of replacing their home computer every 5-6 years in some cases, that same person may end up refreshing their tablet every 1-2 years.
Anyone that says tablets are useless really probably shouldn't pick the technology vertical to invest in, you've got a high(er) probability of making a bad choice and getting burned $ wise.