Best Reading of the Day - Entry 0113 Tablet Sales Flattening

This story on tablets is the best story I read all day:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2457318,00.asp

Here is a snippet from that piece:

With sales of tablets falling, the so-called "experts" are now re-evaluating predictions about tablets taking over the computing market. It never made sense in the first place.

All eyes are on the market share leader, Apple, whose iPad sales fell 16 percent during the first quarter. Some of this has to do with customers moving to Android tablets, but a downward trend is clear. The Microsoft Surface also took a beating.

As I've written about in this blog before Microsoft made a strategic mistake with Windows 8 by completely ignoring traditional PC users.  We still want our desktops and/or our laptops, we just like tablets as well.  Their changes to Windows 8, through Windows 8.1 and the pending Windows 8.1 Update 1 (what?) are moving more and more towards desktop friendly features.

Meanwhile the flattening of iPad sales just points investors to the lack of a new, sensational, product.

At home I have a desktop "main machine" with about 6TB of storage, a computer connected to my television (HTPC), three active tablet devices (Nexus 7, Windows 8, and iPad Air) and at work I have one laptop.  I also carry an iPhone.

Happy Reading,

J.W. Gant