{"id":154525,"date":"2010-01-08T12:08:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T17:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=90236"},"modified":"2010-01-08T12:08:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T17:08:32","slug":"will-demand-meet-the-tablet-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/154525","title":{"rendered":"Will Demand Meet the Tablet Supply?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Dell is using CES to offer a glimpse of its first tablet<\/a>, an Android-based gadget with a 5-inch screen that’s a bit bigger than a smartphone but smaller than a netbook. The company is joining a crush of hardware manufacturers and software developers jumping into a white-hot tablet space, creating a buzz that has expanded beyond the tech sector to attract attention from mainstream media outlets such as USA Today<\/a> and MSNBC.com<\/a>. But is there really much demand for these little connected devices that aren’t<\/em> phones?<\/p>\n

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At CES this week, Microsoft has trotted out an HP-branded tablet<\/a>, Lenovo has showcased a laptop\/tablet hybrid <\/a>and Motorola has offered a glimpse<\/a> of an upcoming tablet product, to name just a few of the companies using the Las Vegas show to flash sleek new offerings. In the meantime, Apple is rumored to be readying a tablet<\/a> as well. And many of the new tablets run Google’s mobile operating system, which– as Google’s Andy Rubin rightly boasts <\/a>– offers the flexibility to be leveraged on a host of different platforms (and which, as Om noted, could lead to the Androidification of everything<\/a>).<\/p>\n

But while Apple’s iPod touch — which is kind of a mini-tablet — has been a hit, tablet-like devices offered in the past from Microsoft<\/a>, Fujitsu <\/a>and others\u00a0haven’t managed to find much of an audience. That could change in the next few years given the increasing presence of Wi-Fi and the deployment of 4G networks, and we’re likely to see a host of non-phone gadgets gain traction as connectivity comes to a wide variety of consumer electronics devices. But consumers will be asked to shell out at least a few hundred dollars to carry a gadget in addition to their existing phones — some of which function pretty well as mini-computers. Whether there are enough users willing to do so is far from clear.<\/p>\n

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