Mickey Segal wrote:
> James Kendrick and I have both enunciated this view:
> http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkonther...tapped_ta.html
> http://www.segal.org/tablet/index.html
> However, it is a minority view among people who already have the laptop size
> Tablet PCs. Senior people in the Tablet PC hardware and software business
> reflect the preferences of these existing customers. However, if you talk
> to potential users such as doctors they say they would only put up with the
> inconveniences of a Tablet PC if they could put it in a pocket, and thus
> gain the huge convenience of continuous access to a real computer.
>
> The obvious answer is a variety of sizes of Tablet PCs. Sooner or later
> someone will produce a small one and we will get to test our predictions.
> In the meantime, it seems like a chapter out of Clay Christensen's book "The
> Innovator's Dilemma".

I agree that the mini-Tablet is a good thing and it will surely come.
I'd like to quickly dock a mini to a larger screen or key-station for
intense reading. I can see a future for internet cafes providing such
facilities for the widely roaming user, especially in areas where
wireless access is not easily available.

For the present though, there is a vast audience of laptop/pc users who
could profit from direct/ink input on a larger screen device. These are
the professionals and creative types who only occasionally roam from
their office, not to mention the larger audience of surfers and readers
who want a home or office-based device. This includes the majority of
doctors and clinical staff who are not in hospitals doing rounds.