Not again!
Sorry Patrick, but I've lost count of the number of times threads on these blogs on the theme of 'tablets rule' have appeared of late. Have you guys and gals got nothing better to write about?
In this particular article, which echo's so many others on these boards, you suggest that I should Gauge tablets relevance to my organization, and that I have little excuse not to be conducting at least an informal test in this area and gauging the relevance to my organization. What dross! Tests in what area? What relevance? The strongest arguments you can come up with for me looking at the technology is that tablets are fast and light in comparison with laptops, which is true. They're also expensive, insecure and offer considerably less bang for your buck then a laptop. You propose that "the majority of workers in most companies use little beyond email, web browsing, and perhaps a handful of enterprise applications." Erm. Yes. But when the "handful of enterprise applications" are the backbone of your enterprise, mass role out of an expensive tool that won't operate these applications is almost as ridiculous as the idea that any but a very few businesses will be even remotely interested in spending 100's of thousands of pounds/dollars/sheckles in development of browser-centric versions of the same software.
You state that the lines between consumer and enterprise hardware, at least at the end user level, are blurring. I suggest you get down to Specsavers mate. You and a number of your colleagues seemingly can't focus on the fact that while there are a great many niche uses that can be 'invented' for a tablet to do (Technical solutions looking for a problem - Patrick Gray Nov 2011), and that there are some genuinely great applications out there which makes a tablet the ideal choice of tool (Disney uses iPads to drive construction project - Jason Hiner Aug 2011), tablets are not a global panacea, and never will be. To coin one of your own phrases, "Focus on the content, not the tablet thats used to deliver it." (Patrick Gray - Nov 2011). Take your own advice, sir.
