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Major Tablet PC Running Into Problems?

Posted by Hemos on from the change-in-the-market dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As Digitimes says : Global sales of Tablet PCs have not been as strong as expected, and major Tablet PC vendors like Acer and Hewlett-Packard (HP) have even experienced declining sales of the products, sources said. Acer, which claims it sold about 35,000 Tablet PCs worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2002, saw sales of the product plunge by over 50% in the first quarter of this year. " I actually saw/held my first Tablet PC last week - it was one of Fujitsu series machines, and I was pretty impressed by it. It'd make a good business/school machine, but I don't think you'd want it for gaming and the like.

3 of 347 comments (clear)

  1. So what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Who gives a shit? If the market doesn't like it, they stop getting made. ARE YOU ACTUALLY USING ONE OF THESE?

  2. Ob: BSOD comments... by TheConfusedOne · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    While I agree that wireless tablets are probably one way to replace the ubiquitous clip boards that you see everywhere there will be some changes necessary to the marketing literature:
    1) BFOD - Critical error causing patient to lose vital signs and throw "General Protection Fault"
    2) Do you want to go to the afterlife today?
    3) AfterLife.NET
    AND
    4) 1 Degree of separation between life and death...

    --
    --- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
  3. ..but they won't make a Linux laptop. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They'll bet the farm on a Microsoft Tablet PC, but companies won't even budge at looking at making a Linux compatable (accelerated video/3D, ACPI, no preinstalled Windows 98/NT/2000/XP) laptop.

    Interesting.