Recent weeks have been great weeks for tablets. On October 25, both Nokia and Apple have announced new tablets to compete for holiday sales. The news about the new iPAD Air is covered well here and the new tablet Nokia 2520 here. They are two great additions to the growing lineup Note Samsung, Microsoft Surface, Google Nexus and Amazon Kindle Fire HDX. On Friday, November 1st, new iPad Air Apple went on sales and according to some reports, had the greatest weekend to Apple yet. Thus, consumers will have a lot to choose when it comes to tablets, finally. But the tablet hardware is commoditizing, where parity is almost, but not quite among the various providers. Mentioned in a previous post, as it happens, the real interest is on applications of these devices operate. So, the real war is not only the hardware, it will be fought on several (EU, user interface, applications) software fronts. A front on which the document editing system to use.
As tablets become more common, the company's users will have more growing demands for more enterprise application support. More complex uses such as creating and editing documents are on the rise. Last year, Microsoft delivered in its Office suite on its shelves. His hope was to have the most successful office documents produced lead users to adopt its equipment. This has not yet occurred. Apple announced in September this year, as new devices, bundle it in its iWork applications. This was mostly driven by Google giving QuickOffice free for tablets. Apple is trying to stave off Microsoft as it plans to release Office for iPad, probably next year. Much of this is driven by the fact that sales of tablets ahead computers and are used for document creation. On a desktop
According to Gartner in a report released last week, global large shipments of traditional PCs (and laptop) are expected to total 303 million units in 2013, a decrease of 11.2% compared to 2012, and the PC market, including UMPC, is projected to decline by 8.4% in 2013. deliveries for mobile phones to increase by 3.7%, with a volume of more than 1.8 billion units with tablets shipments will grow by 53.4 percent in 2013, reaching 184 million units. But that does not tell the whole story. PC sales are down, in households that used to have two or three machines. In households, the tablets are certainly replace the PC. But there is little evidence to suggest the same thing in business. Legacy applications require the continued use of PCs and laptops in businesses where tablets can not yet support these applications. Most mobile professionals have two or even three mobile devices (laptop, smartphone and tablet), with very little to consolidate their devices. With more complex business applications, creating data has not yet migrated to the shelves, even with the plethora of editing tools and documents. The version of Microsoft Office for the iPad, will not change at all.
Tablets are great for consuming all types of content, even perform editing or annotation, which is where most of these documents tools are used. But content creation, although increasingly on tablets, is still mainly done on PCs and laptops today. This will continue to occur over the next few years until better mobile applications are designed for content creation. Be ready for this change, it will come, but not yet occur.
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