Michael Dell Dismisses Tablet Threat To the PC Market 352
alphadogg writes with an excerpt from a Network World article: "The PC is not likely to be challenged by the tablet or the smartphone, and many users of the Internet on these devices will turn to the PC for a better experience, Michael Dell said in Bangalore on Monday. If you were going off to college and could only have one device, you would choose the PC over a smartphone or a tablet, said Dell, whose company also sells smartphones. 'If you could have two devices, then you would probably choose the phone before the tablet,' the Dell CEO added."
What a coincidence (Score:4, Informative)
Jerry Shen just Announced [cnet.com] a Tegra 3 tablet with ICS for $250.
Re:He's probably right. (Score:4, Informative)
You're assuming consumers never do real work, which is not a good assumption. Lots of people need to work from home now and then. And not just the people in techie professions, but teachers and reporters and managers and so on. None of those people will choose a tablet in place of a PC. And then there are the tens of millions of people who play video games like WoW or CoD. And there's the ever growing blogging world, whose members would likely prefer to write up their posts with a real keyboard.
Tablets represent a real threat to the laptop market, and may outright kill the netbook. But the PC has some major advantages that will allow it to remain the top choice for most people (who may also buy a tablet to go along with it!), at least until we get a sufficiently good docking system that can allow a tablet double as a PC.
Re:He's probably right. (Score:2, Informative)
Keyboard with my iPad means I can do all the real document work I need to, at laptop speeds.
On your undersized keyboard with your tablet precariously balanced ... somewhere ... and without a pointing device.
Yeah, I'll bet that'll get you to "laptop speeds", lol.
I'll bet you also love paying three-times the price of a netbook for less than half of the functionality. Moron.