Don't Dismiss The iPad And Other Tablets As Just Hype

Depending on whom you talk to, the iPad and its emerging tablet rivals are either the end of the PC as we know it or just nice little marginal gadgets. They'll either transform how business people consume, share, and process information, or they'll end up with the Newton and the Network Computer among the glorified technology devices whose time, at least in the enterprise, never came. Wholesale Cell Phones
In unveiling a thinner, lighter, more powerful iPad on March 2, Apple CEO Steve Jobs talked repeatedly about this being the "post-PC era." Whenever anyone mentions a post-anything era--whether it's post-PC, post-classical, post-modern, post-human, or post-grape nuts--my BS detector flares up. Still, CIOs dismiss tablets at their companies' peril. wholesale electronics suppliers
For starters, there's no ignoring the sheer volume of iPads Apple has sold since introducing the first such device a year ago. At the end of 2010, Apple had sold 14.8 million iPads, and analysts predict it will sell another 5 million to 6 million this quarter alone--most of them to first-time buyers.