This is good news for anyone sitting on the fence regarding the Tablet PC market.
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The idea for the tablet PC -- a portable device to allow users to enter data with a pen-like stylus -- had been percolating quietly ever since chipmaker National Semiconductor Corp. announced a design in the dot-com boom years for a simple Web-browsing pad that manufacturers could use to make the devices.
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Yes, and those of us who were playing the role of a doubting thomas must now eat our own words. Chomp chomp.
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But it's starting to happen. Doctors' offices and real-estate offices are among the vertical markets that are embracing the devices, Promisel said.
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Hey ! Teachers too ;-)
However, I'm a bit confused by the last two paragraphs. The numbers in my mind must be wrong ...
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Promisel said that his firm predicts that in 2003, a total of 500,000 tablet PCs will be sold around the globe, which represents about 1 percent of the total portable PC market.
But, by 2007, IDC forecasts that the tablet PC could account for well over 20 percent of the portable market.
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Gosh, I hope I'm wrong because I expect the Tablet PC to capture the market much sooner -- it only takes a really good salesperson to show the benefits of the Tablet and people will flock to it.
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09-23-2003, 08:32 PM
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