It will be very interesting to see the final results of this poll because I have seen a lot articles and comments about tablets and of course it seems to be the future device that all will be using.
I wouldn't consider tablets 'hurting' PC sales. It is just the trend of technology going to smaller and smaller products. Just as laptops have gone towards netbooks.
You're right Nemos, I am curious to know the result. Although so far, voting appears to be in tablet’s favour. I lean more towards laptop & desktop pc.
Tablets cannot replace the PC until it can do everything the PC can do ... like print a document and hook up to a projector! They ARE canibalising Netbooks but the PC? No way. PC sales are down for a completely different set of reasons, part of which being that PCs are now so boring thanks to MS not developing (or allowing others to develop) any seriously good new applications so the gee whizz factor has gone.
I think PC will remain core computational and general purpose device in world of technology. It seems very difficult for any newer or emerging techno-device to shove PC aside.
PC has its own value. Tablet can not replace PC although it is handy. It is a mobile technology because of the weight and portability.Many end users who really need to use it for daily activities will enjoy the usage. We are still in the era when many people are still conservative, and resist change to ways of life.
Kunmi, -- Resisting change to new ways of life is equivalent to saying that innovation and progress have no room in the advancement of technology because, in fact, there would be no such advancement.
The capacity to adapt to changes in order to evolve is within the nature of any being on this planet. Who can't adapt can't survive and/or stays behind.
Tablets are for certain needs and uses and are not in the market to replace PCs or laptops. Not yet.
Malcolm, -- MS has not developed anything new for a very long time. PCs are boring because they keep on giving more problems than solutions and there has not been any interesting innovation.
PCs are experiencing sales problems simply because they are not practical and useful for the new user. By new user I mean the user who needs a device anytime and anywhere he/she is.
The practicality and portability of the laptop, netbook and tablet is what is killing the PC. I wouldn't consider buying a PC for anything. There is simply no use for having a piece of equipment that can only be used in one sigle place.
@Malcolm:I agree with you that tablet is not ready yet to put PC out of market.
I feel tablet is yet to be able to excecute all its functions without PC coming in.
For almost all the developing countries, PC is still the main thing while Tablets are flowing in but much more expensive and gaining little acceptance.
If tablet is to be able to do all what PC can do today, will the portability be there?
I feel tablet is more of a mobile thing while PC still do the homework.
One notable area PC is commonly being used - Network Environment.
Am still wondering about functionality of tablet to servicing networked computers - ie SERVER COMPUTER. Can tablet carries out server tasks which PC has been handling for ages housing many service applications in clustering and pool of computers? Many enterprises today use PC to deploy network services distribution - security application, file sharing etc.
1 - Military cluster computer laboratory
2 - Universities
3 - Banks
4 - Governmental agencies
5 - Research institution's laboratories, and many more to come in backend/frontend networked environments.
Do we foresee tablet as possible replacement to PC to excellently performing well in this area?
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