The PDA ride given way to SmartPhones and Blackberries and old time Palm'ers and Pocket PC'ers dying off more and more these days. Hybrid PDA/Phone more the take. No one much uses the Pen with DS, mere gimmick. And Tablet hardly breaking much ground. Pen Computing is not dead, but it's not very alive either. And while this article is a tad over-the-top sensationalist (lost stylii and etc.), it does have a point, a mountian-heap of failed projects (and red ink) that all dealt with Pen Computing, and only the subsidized outlay of Microsoft and 11+ years of R&D, making this round happen, while yet every Tablet OEM seriously complaining. And now when the tech is there, they can't seem to get a deep marketing hook in, market success it it not. To me, yes, Pen Computing is near death. But the army at Valley Forge was the same one at Yorktown.
The only way Pen Computing or Tablets will “become” mainstream is when they ARE mainstream. When the OS is one and the same, and digitizer tech is a commodity, when laptops are tablets, and tablets are laptops. They won’t ever BECOME mainstream, so you will have to MAKE them mainstream. The masses won’t come to the Tablets, so the Tablets must replace what is mainstream, to get to the masses. Simple really.
Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.
The PDA ride given way to SmartPhones and Blackberries and old time Palm'ers and Pocket PC'ers dying off more and more these days. Hybrid PDA/Phone more the take. No one much uses the Pen with DS, mere gimmick. And Tablet hardly breaking much ground. Pen Computing is not dead, but it's not very alive either. And while this article is a tad over-the-top sensationalist (lost stylii and etc.), it does have a point, a mountian-heap of failed projects (and red ink) that all dealt with Pen Computing, and only the subsidized outlay of Microsoft and 11+ years of R&D, making this round happen, while yet every Tablet OEM seriously complaining. And now when the tech is there, they can't seem to get a deep marketing hook in, market success it it not. To me, yes, Pen Computing is near death. But the army at Valley Forge was the same one at Yorktown.
The only way Pen Computing or Tablets will “become” mainstream is when they ARE mainstream. When the OS is one and the same, and digitizer tech is a commodity, when laptops are tablets, and tablets are laptops. They won’t ever BECOME mainstream, so you will have to MAKE them mainstream. The masses won’t come to the Tablets, so the Tablets must replace what is mainstream, to get to the masses. Simple really.