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Friday, December 28, 2007

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Umm.. Tablet PCs??

- Matt Faulkner

There isn't much to say on this...  but get your words right if you are going to post an article like this one.  It caught my attention, but these being classified as Tablet PCs???  Somebody needs to do a little more research or understand what the products actually are...

This is from the article labeled: 2007 Top Ten: Techs That Flopped

10. Tablet PCs
Two of the biggest cellphone makers, Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK - message board) and Palm Inc. , tried to break into this market and ended up falling flat on their faces. Palm ditched its Foleo device only months after initially promoting it as a groundbreaking new product.

Nokia, meanwhile, in what some analysts called a sign of weakness, tried to jumpstart sales of its high-end business phones by going around the traditional distribution channels of cellphone carriers and selling them directly to consumers.

In both cases, tablet PCs were a bitter pill to swallow.

Foleo?? Tablet PC?????




12/28/2007 9:40 AM MST  

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Friday, December 28, 2007 10:20:54 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
This doesn't surprise me. Many columnists are slightly less clueless than my grandfather when it comes to tech. Blogs, with a few exceptions of course, only make it worse. Any fool with a keyboard can post something and people will take it as gospel since it's printed.

Are tablets really popular, well no but I think that is because they aren't sold to the mainstream public. I always get questions the first couple weeks of classes, most didn't know they exist the remaining think they start at $2000+. I'm happy to see there are a few dozen people with them now, so at least they are catching on.
ericthebikeman
Friday, December 28, 2007 3:08:51 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Congratulations, you found a dumb person on the internet ;-)
schmolch
Saturday, December 29, 2007 7:16:30 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
The Nokia and Palm stories aren't even related to each other, much less related to Tablet PCs.
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