Asia is pretty hot, Mike. A couple of the OEMs sell only in those markets.
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Chris H.
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"Mike Williams [MVP]" <mikew@Nospam.mvps.org> wrote in message
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> 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.