Tabula PC's tough love for the Tablet PC

Tabula PC, a site dedicated to Tablet PCs, is calling tablet computing out, and you know that something is grievoulsy wrong when the enthusiast sites start raising the red flag. So what's the deal? Well, the short answer is that the technology is immature, (actually, we think manufacturers keep it immature because they still don't understand the market) but Tabula PC goes off on all of the unwieldy, heavy Tablet PCs out there with low resolution screens and poor battery life, the stale OS that Microsoft still hasn't officially updated, and the generally awful marketing efforts of manufacturers. Some of this we take issue with, but it's true that a platform like the Tablet PC does need a radically different interface than MS has provided (they could do so much more to take advantage of the fact that it's pen-based not mouse-based), and without a doubt there's a lot of room for improvement on the hardware side of things.
Until Tablet PCs find their place in the world(maybe as part of these digital entertainment hubs we keep hearing about?) and start to really become more than just WinXP machines with some handwriting recognition software on top of them, they're going to remain niche products that are mere novelties for most people.

[Via Scobleizer]