Tablet PCs Doomed

Once hyped through a multi-million dollar ad campaign from Microsoft as the Next Big Thing in mobile computing, Tablet PCs have so far failed to catch on with most computer users. C|Net takes a look at tablet PCs success so far, and finds that the only real movement towards tablets is happening in “vertical” markets like medicine. While the tone of the piece suggests that there is strong growth potential in this area, I’m going to stick to my original position on tablet PCs and say that they are expensive, pointless, and ultimately will lose out to less expensive regular laptops in the consumer market, and lose out to handhelds in the vertical market.