Tech.pinions’s Ben Bajarin says his firm has been doing extensive tablet analysis over the past year, and that the more he studys the role of tablet computers in the industry and in the lives of consumers, the more fascinated he become with the form factor. Bajarin clarifies up front that he, like market research from Canalys (and your editor), believes and classifies the tablet as simply anohter form factor on the PC landscape.
Bajarin says he’s been recently focusing on tablets being able to go where traditional PC/Notebook PCs would be the wrong form factor for the job in a growing number of use cases and market pain points, and that prior to tablets the market has been obliged to use PCs for jobs that we are now finding tablets better suited to.
He observes that n many business related scenarios we are seeing the iPad step in and take the place of notebook PCs, primarily because it is better suited for the specific task at hand, with enterprises discovering that for their most mobile workers the iPad is a better tool for the job than a clamshell notebook.
He also observes that the iPad makes a perfect learning companion, contending that touch computing removes barriers to computing presented by mice and keyboards, thus making ‘pads better tools for learning for all ages, but kids specifically (not all of us agree on that point Ed.), contending that the iPad fits better into educational environments than the PC ever could.
Another iPad portability advantage is that unlike laptops, users are comfortable using them while standing, walking, sitting on the couch, laying in bed, in the bathroom, by the pool, at the beach, in the kitchen, etc, and taking the tablet places where they would not or could not take our clamshell PCs. Bajarin argues that when consumers use a clamshell notebook they are not truly mobile, whereas one can actually use a tablet and literally be mobile, so when it comes to computing mobility the tablet is mobile computing in its purest form.
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