T.C. Doyle Re-Thinks Tablet PC’s
T.C. Doyle, a contributor to VarBusiness magazine, writes an interesting editorial in this month’s edition of the magazine. I always enjoy reading Doyle’s thoughtful and witty back page commentaries, but this month he writes about how he has recently been confronted with some new thoughts and data that have changed his mind about a couple of IT-related points.
The first of those things he mentions is the market for the Tablet PC. After talking with Mark Simons, general manager of Toshiba America Information Systems, and with Brian Russell, VP of sales at Central Telecom, a solutions provider that sells Toshiba notebooks, he no longer thinks “that the tablet PC is an innovation in search of a purpose.”
Russell tells Doyle that 40% of his sales today come from tablet PC’s, and that could reach 70% next year. Another proof point:
After all, I’ve never see executives from the companies that make tablets actually using them themselves. And, as you know in IT, you can never fully trust a guy who won’t eat his own dog food. Turns out, Simons and his team at Toshiba are chowing down.
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VAR Business: Re-Evaluating the Tablet PC
T.C. Doyle of VAR Business is re-evaluating his long held belief about the Tablet PC that it is an innovation in search of a purpose. Based on some recent conversations with Mark Simons, GM of Toshiba America Information Systems and