I Got Spanked by Heiny for My Tablet Comments

I kid you not! Lora Heiny over at “What Is New in Tablet PCs?” took me to task for my words of depression about Tablets. She took umbrage with my using Dell as a yardstick against which to measure the future of Tablet evolution. She relies on this quote:

Dell, the world’s largest PC maker, is not interested in Tablet PCs because the market is too small. “We think they are truly an interesting technology, but right now the people who are getting the most immediate gain out of tablets are in certain verticals,” said Dell spokeswoman Anne Camden. “We’re not seeing a significant market trend.”

This is one time that repeating the error over and over again doesn’t make it true. If you’re interested in buying a Tablet PC from Dell, here is the link.)

But Lora… Read what Camden said: “right now the people who are getting the most immediate gain out of tablets are in certain verticals.” So sure, they’re selling the bloody little beasties, but they’re selling them into vertical markets and have no intention of wandering. Microsoft wants to mainstream the thingies!

I can forgive Ms. Heiny for her lapse of judgment, especially the part about me being wrong. She is a Tablet proponent. Like those who fought most passionately for the walking dead OS/2, her passion is overwriting her sense of context.