TABLET WINDOWS 7
Updated 217 days ago
We are just getting numbers in suggesting that last year's hope for an iPad killer, er, competitor, er alternative, the Samsung Galaxy Tablet, sold around 250,000 units. The number isn't great: only about one of 8 tablets sold last year was the Samsung...
There hasn't been much buzz around the RIM tablet and the HP/Palm offering isn't exactly setting the world on fire. This leaves Steve Jobs (wherever he is), with something clearly to smile about. Only Dell and Microsoft could give him any trouble at all...
The business tablet market largely exists in a small number of verticals and mostly forms-based segments. It is a paper eliminator and has many of the core attributes that the eBook market does in terms of being very focused on doing forms well, just as eBooks are very focused on books.