me wrote:
> The tablet PC market in the UK is dead. The big retailers like PC World here
> don't even sell any tablet PCs. Go into most companies and you won't see any
> tablets. I work in one of the UKs biggest banks and I have seen exactly one
> tablet PC here. Guess who had it - the on site Microsoft representative.
>
> To make this product mainstream I think the size and weight has to come
> down.

Since it's an invisible/intangible product most places outside the US at
the moment, I don't think weight needs to come down for a market to
exist (although that will come down as regular laptop sizes decrease -
there's no magic that you can do just for tablets).

None of my media/tech-savvy friends in the UK have ever seen a real
Tablet and as far as they're concerned it has yet to be released there.
Ditto here in Australia. Although over a million tablets have been sold,
I don't see Microsoft getting behind it in any non-US markets. Even
folks in the US complain about the drab advertising.