While Tablet PCs aren't making any dramatic growth. They are doing surprisingly well in some areas such as health care, real estate, and insurance industries. Other areas like Education and Businesses have yet to adopt this technology.
It's still slow going for tablet PCs.
A new report says that after a little more than 18 months on the market, tablet PCs based on Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system have established themselves in several niches but have yet to catch on in the wider PC markets for businesses or consumers. Tablet PCs have been adopted by companies in the health care, real estate and insurance industries, for example, but businesses have not yet deployed the pen-driven computers to executives or other workers in large numbers, and consumer sales also have been slow, according to a report released Wednesday by research company In-Stat/MDR.
Over time, some of the apparent lack of enthusiasm among businesses and consumers could change. However, tablet sales are likely to continue to be slow in those two markets until prices come down and the software improves--two things that are expected to begin happening later this year, according to the report. Tablet PCs have done "pretty well in vertical markets, such as insurance or real estate, because those industries were used to the tablet form factor," said Brian O'Rourke, an analyst at In-Stat/MDR.
News source: C|Net News.com
