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  Tablet shipments forecast slashed by half as Western markets slow Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-30 18:49 +0000
    Re: Tablet shipments forecast slashed by half as Western markets slow RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-31 17:01 +0000
      Re: Tablet shipments forecast slashed by half as Western markets slow polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-08-31 18:08 +0100
      Re: Tablet shipments forecast slashed by half as Western markets slow Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2014-08-31 12:15 -0500
      Re: Tablet shipments forecast slashed by half as Western markets slow Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-09-01 17:38 +0300

#4603 — Tablet shipments forecast slashed by half as Western markets slow

http://www.zdnet.com/tablet-shipments-forecast-slashed-by-half-as-western-markets-slow-7000033127/

   There are likely to be fewer tablets shipped this year than previously
   expected, according to latest estimates.

   Research firm IDC lowered its tablet projections on Friday for the full
   year down to 233 million shipments. That's a 6.5 percent year-over-year
   growth rate, compared to the 12.1 percent growth rate previously
   expected.

   ...

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#4614

On 2014-08-30, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>
>    There are likely to be fewer tablets shipped this year than
>    previously expected, according to latest estimates.
>
>    Research firm IDC lowered its tablet projections on Friday for the
>    full year down to 233 million shipments. That's a 6.5 percent
>    year-over-year growth rate, compared to the 12.1 percent growth
>    rate previously expected.
>

The press always wets its pants over this kind of headlines.  Seems
straightforward to me: everyone who wanted one, bought one.  The current
gear is working, and there are no compelling reasons to upgrade.  

I'm currently rocking a Nexus 7, the Missus has an Ipad Mini, and we
gave her old Ipad (the big one) to the mother in law when we realized it
was a bit big for our liking.

We are not in the market; I wouldn't be surprised if others are finding
themselves in the same situation.

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#4616

On 31/08/2014 18:01, RS Wood wrote:
> I'm currently rocking a Nexus 7, the Missus has an Ipad Mini, and we
> gave her old Ipad (the big one) to the mother in law when we realized it
> was a bit big for our liking.
>
> We are not in the market; I wouldn't be surprised if others are finding
> themselves in the same situation.

Very, very similar (same products but the old 10" iPad is mine as well).

Really not sure what would be needed to get me to upgrade. Screen that 
is usable in brilliant sunshine? At present I have a nasty feeling that 
accidental damage might be the real pusher.

-- 
Rod

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#4617

On 2014-08-31, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On 2014-08-30, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>    There are likely to be fewer tablets shipped this year than
>>    previously expected, according to latest estimates.
>>
>>    Research firm IDC lowered its tablet projections on Friday for the
>>    full year down to 233 million shipments. That's a 6.5 percent
>>    year-over-year growth rate, compared to the 12.1 percent growth
>>    rate previously expected.
>>
>
> The press always wets its pants over this kind of headlines.  Seems
> straightforward to me: everyone who wanted one, bought one.  The current
> gear is working, and there are no compelling reasons to upgrade.  
>
> I'm currently rocking a Nexus 7, the Missus has an Ipad Mini, and we
> gave her old Ipad (the big one) to the mother in law when we realized it
> was a bit big for our liking.
>
> We are not in the market; I wouldn't be surprised if others are finding
> themselves in the same situation.

I bought every tablet known to man it seems. And in the end I finally
realized all that I actually use the thing for is reading books,
highlighting and taking notes in the books and sometimes watching part
of a movie or TV show as I travel. I don't listen to music. I rarely
play a game. I don't use the GPS. I don't use most of it. So in the end
I bought a 7" Kindle Fire HDX WiFI only and that's been my tablet. 

All the junk will eventually go up on ebay. 

For mobile computing I went right back to a 3 lb notebook running rhel.
The whole tablet thing was pretty much a giant waste of time and money.
It was cool, interesting, but in the end it really about consumers
consuming media and games the way I see it. 

I hear the media constantly tell us they use it for email and writing
articles. No thanks. If I want to use email, I'll use real email with
Zimbra where I have a ton of control over the email. That's what I need.
And if I want to write something, I'd rather just use Vim or Write and
have access to my standard file stores which are synced to my NFS
shares. 

As I said from pretty much day 1, these tablets are going to be good for
those that never actually needed a computer to begin with. They bought
computers because that was the only way to gain access to social media
and groupware, like email. But they wanted those things on a consumer
level. They don't actually need them or want the complexity that comes
with them. I thought we see a drop in PC sales as that market defined
itself and those that still need PCs will continue to buy PCs. 

And here we are. Tablet sales leveling off. So much for the so-called
bullshit genius of the late Jobs and the shift to tablet computing. The
PC is alive and well and not going anywhere. Lame consumers are just
getting out of the PC space, which in my opinion is a good thing. They
step in every virus and fall prey to ever stupid social engineering
trick known to mankind. They needed a Fisher Price solution to computing
and got it. 

-- 
Marek Novotny
A member of the Linux Foundation
http://www.linuxfoundation.org
git with the program

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#4625

RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:

> The press always wets its pants over this kind of headlines.  Seems
> straightforward to me: everyone who wanted one, bought one.  The current
> gear is working, and there are no compelling reasons to upgrade.  

Well, I dunno. I have the 2012 Nexus 7 and it seems a bit slow
now... Especially with the advent of the Link Bubble browser on Android.
It loads and renders web pages in the background and pops the ready
rendered pages on top of the current app in an overlay on request. Doing
that sort of thing for a bunch of web pages is fairly hungry for RAM
though.

So could use a faster CPU and more RAM. Cellular connectivity built in
wouldn't hurt either. File transfers to the device are really slow
too. Battery life seems to have gotten shorter which is to be expected
after two years. So I've been eyeballing the 2013 Nexus 7...

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