Sales of Tablet PCs not taking off
Not that this wasn't already sadly obvious, but a new report confirms that sales of Tablet PCs are just not hot and that they're being outsold by regular laptops by a factor of 100 to one. They're not falling, it's just that they aren't picking up like they were supposed to. The big problem? Besides their admittedly limited appeal, Tablet PCs still cost too dang much, so it's hard to convince a lot of people who might actually find the whole pen-input thing useful (like students, for example) that they should spend the extra cash when they can get a perfectly good laptop for less. We keep hoping that sooner or later the cost of the technology will come down enough that it'd be feasible to make every laptop also double as a Tablet PC, but at the rate things are going Microsoft might abandon the Tablet PC operating system before that ever happens.
