Study: 27 Mil. Americans Planning Tablet Purchase

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Study: When 1 out of 1 people were asked, they answered no. absolutely, unequivocally, making it a fact that NOBODY has any urge to purchase a tablet anything.
 
I would put VERY little faith in these estimates. Current gen tech makes for cool toys, but not solid tools. I can't imagine 27M US customers wanting such toys. None for me, thank you very much.
 
LOL!!!
Where the hell did they pull that number from!?
"based on a survey on nearly 4,000 people"
That all live in the same high class city?
I really think they need a better sampling in multiple cities across america for those numbers to be more realistic.

If I was in a room filled with gamers you can bet the percentage would be skewed if I asked them if they planned to buy the next Diablo game.

Why don't you go to a lower class neighborhood and see how your numbers come out.

The answer to your question...
No, I'm not planning on buying one anytime soon.
 
I'll get the ExoPC which is a promising device. (azcoyote, this is the device you looking for)

as a second computer, for sure, I still need a mouse and a full keyboard to be comfortable to write emails and documents.
But to read books, watching movies in the bedroom or in the car for the kids, its perfect.
Also the size of the screen will be good enough to draw something using the gustav application (or another one like this one)

finally its also to help a starting company which focus on something good: a real OS for a computer! (and let the user do what he want)
and not half of an OS just to control the users through a market place...
 
[citation][nom]Antilycus[/nom]Study: When 1 out of 1 people were asked, they answered no. absolutely, unequivocally, making it a fact that NOBODY has any urge to purchase a tablet anything.[/citation]

Assuming a population of 27,000,000 for the consumer market, a sample size of 4000 will give you a confidence interval of around 1.5 with a confidence level of 95%. I would venture to say that this is much more statistically sound than the majority of other statistics that get thrown around most of the time. This is assuming no sampling error or bias occured. Though this isn't a touchy subject, like politics, where I would expect it to occur, you never know.

For the question at hand, I’ll probably get a tablet eventually, but the price/performance have to be on point and it’s only after I get a new laptop. Would have been third in line, but I just built a desktop recently that should last me a few years before it falls below max settings on anything I’ll be running.
 
Bullsh*t!... Very unlikewise! I guess they just went to Apple and asked them how many giant Ipod Touch they will sell and invented a survey!
 
I hope they don't expect the same results as with a netbook!
the netbook was a gigantic success because it was an affordable computer, and small laptop!

Sure a lot of people want a tablet, until they actually need to do something on it, like typing...

There are still plenty who prefer a netbook, or something with a real keyboard over a tablet!
 
Considering the Ipad costs $600...BS!!! The concept of a tablet is a fairly good one, but they cant cost that much, that costs more than a decent laptop, most netbooks, and even some low grade desktops!
 
[citation][nom]willgart[/nom]I'll get the ExoPC which is a promising device. (azcoyote, this is the device you looking for)[/citation]

Thanks willgart... I will watch for it... I have a Netbook with the Crystal HD now and I dig it... batts last forever...
 
I would like to buy a nice Android tablet, if they come out with one. From what I've heard, though, it wouldn't support the resolution I'm looking for until version 3.0.

I want a tablet that would do 1280X800 in a 10" screen size and run Android. Is that too much to ask for?
 
If these ever come down in price and have the ability that a Logitech Harmony remote has, they'd be great in the living room for scheduled programming, turning on/off all my AV gear, and providing a quick internet console.

About the only use I have for one at this time... I get the impression that none of these companies will ever put a pressure sensitive screen w/ stylus for us artist out there.
 
no way.
i am the proud owner of around 1300 books and pulp magazines.
i will never support the buying and viewing of books via digital drm files.
i collect books and read them all.my library is full of 1st editions and rare scifi's.
 
NO

My Droid handles everything a tablet can do and I much prefer reading books in paper format. The resolution of the fonts is crystal clear and the battery lasts forever.
 
I`ve wanted a PC tablet for the last 10 yrs. Some flavor of dual-core,
ssd, hdmi, dvi, 3 usb, ethernet, stylus built-in, hand-writing recognition,
I want a pda, browser, e-reader, portable office. virtual keyboards are all right but graffiti is FAST once you get the hang of it. Heck, my typing sucks on a regular keyboard.
 
When the ipad was released, my response was "what the hell is the point of this?".

Now that there's a whole slew of non-apple tablets coming out, my response is "what the hell is the point of these?".

You'll notice my massive change in response now that we have non-apple alternatives.
 
As soon as someone releases a good quality windows based tablet in a form factor comparable to the iPad, I plan on buying 10 of them. All for work. My coworkers and I spend hours writing down numbers on pads of paper so we can take the back to our computers and enter them into excel spreadsheets and word documents and a whole host of other programs. As well as carting around 300 page manuals to do our jobs. I have been waiting for a decent tablet form PC since back in the days of using documents2go on my Palm IIIc and imagining being more productive. Netbooks came close for me, but they were still a little too cumbersome. Sign me up.
 
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