The word out now is that HP's decision to dump their flop tablet means the PC is dead. Says who? Most people don't have iPads. Only 29 million have been sold. Microsoft has sold 400 million Windows 7 licenses. Where I work there might be several hundred computers running XP & 2000.
Yes, the economy is still in the dumper, but people aren't replacing PC's with tablets. They're just not that good. No keyboard or mouse, limited software. Are you going to do business related work on one? No. Is Office on the iPad. Nope. That's not what the device is for. All along it has been referred to as a "consumption device". That means you use it to surf, listen to music, read e-books & watch movies. Not productive work. You need a laptop or desktop for that. They just can do more & have the storage for it. My desktop has a 640 GB hard drive. No tablet even has a hard drive, just flash memory.
Windows has a 82% market share, if you count iPads as computers. That is not going to change any time soon.
Yes, the economy is still in the dumper, but people aren't replacing PC's with tablets. They're just not that good. No keyboard or mouse, limited software. Are you going to do business related work on one? No. Is Office on the iPad. Nope. That's not what the device is for. All along it has been referred to as a "consumption device". That means you use it to surf, listen to music, read e-books & watch movies. Not productive work. You need a laptop or desktop for that. They just can do more & have the storage for it. My desktop has a 640 GB hard drive. No tablet even has a hard drive, just flash memory.
Windows has a 82% market share, if you count iPads as computers. That is not going to change any time soon.
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