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Yup, this is a Tablets Blog. Thanks for that.
My point was that I receive a great many e-mails from TechRepublic, which I'm quite happy with as a rule. There are some real nuggets buried in here. The number of 'Tablet' based headliners on the past few months has been very high, however, and the quality of the opening to discussions generally very poor.
To allay your fears, I'm pretty sure that anyone following these boards as a whole will only have missed the plethora of discussions on the topic of tablets if they've been away for a considerable period of time. There's little chance that any regular TechRepublic subscribers might will miss the boat in this respect. I'm equally sure that the majority of your readers will have had some first hand exposure to the technology.
You say that you've offered low risk/low cost ways to investigate the use of tablets in your Blog. Going out and spending a few thousand pounds so I can work with "a few of these devices and check out the market" is a sound, low-cost strategy for making a proper assessment of a potential enterprise-wide IT systems platform is it?
You're notion that tablets are relevant because they're fast and light (so is my phone), they're handy in meetings (they're a huge annoyance in meetings, just like laptops), and they're great for e-mail and web browsing (true, but so's my wife) does nothing to back up your opening statements. If anything it's reinforced my opinion that tablets are a media frenzy / marketing fad simply because you haven't offered any evidence to the contrary.
With respect to your philosophical note, I can offer my current perspective on tablets having used tablets in the past. Very successfully I might add. I believe I have significant first-hand experience of the technology under discussion having helped develop Windows and Psion tablet based application systems myself. That was 8 years ago. The technology has moved on, but the basic pro's con's of tablet technologies are identical in almost every respect. If anything they're worse in many ways when considering systems interoperability.
You're president of a company providing strategic consulting services. I would love to hear your experience of tablet use in industry, assuming you have any. Outside of the boardroom (executive toys) or as a media platform for sales and marketing (where a tablet would be a real boon) I'm unaware of any but a few genuine, cost effective, business process driven projects that use tablet based applications. Show me examples of tablets in use in an enterprise as the technology of choice. Not because they're some technophiles wet dream, or a gadget guru's latest toy, but because they're demonstrably a cost effective solution to a genuine business need.
Writing about real-life development of the platform and it's practical applications will rock my world. Driving the supposition that tablets are great because they're 'fast and light' etc is simply poor journalism. The IT press spouting off about the wonders of tablets IS another burden, and a LONG way from helpful commentary.
My point was that I receive a great many e-mails from TechRepublic, which I'm quite happy with as a rule. There are some real nuggets buried in here. The number of 'Tablet' based headliners on the past few months has been very high, however, and the quality of the opening to discussions generally very poor.
To allay your fears, I'm pretty sure that anyone following these boards as a whole will only have missed the plethora of discussions on the topic of tablets if they've been away for a considerable period of time. There's little chance that any regular TechRepublic subscribers might will miss the boat in this respect. I'm equally sure that the majority of your readers will have had some first hand exposure to the technology.
You say that you've offered low risk/low cost ways to investigate the use of tablets in your Blog. Going out and spending a few thousand pounds so I can work with "a few of these devices and check out the market" is a sound, low-cost strategy for making a proper assessment of a potential enterprise-wide IT systems platform is it?
You're notion that tablets are relevant because they're fast and light (so is my phone), they're handy in meetings (they're a huge annoyance in meetings, just like laptops), and they're great for e-mail and web browsing (true, but so's my wife) does nothing to back up your opening statements. If anything it's reinforced my opinion that tablets are a media frenzy / marketing fad simply because you haven't offered any evidence to the contrary.
With respect to your philosophical note, I can offer my current perspective on tablets having used tablets in the past. Very successfully I might add. I believe I have significant first-hand experience of the technology under discussion having helped develop Windows and Psion tablet based application systems myself. That was 8 years ago. The technology has moved on, but the basic pro's con's of tablet technologies are identical in almost every respect. If anything they're worse in many ways when considering systems interoperability.
You're president of a company providing strategic consulting services. I would love to hear your experience of tablet use in industry, assuming you have any. Outside of the boardroom (executive toys) or as a media platform for sales and marketing (where a tablet would be a real boon) I'm unaware of any but a few genuine, cost effective, business process driven projects that use tablet based applications. Show me examples of tablets in use in an enterprise as the technology of choice. Not because they're some technophiles wet dream, or a gadget guru's latest toy, but because they're demonstrably a cost effective solution to a genuine business need.
Writing about real-life development of the platform and it's practical applications will rock my world. Driving the supposition that tablets are great because they're 'fast and light' etc is simply poor journalism. The IT press spouting off about the wonders of tablets IS another burden, and a LONG way from helpful commentary.
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Updated - 2nd Dec 2011
