Interviews - MSI to launch Windows and Android tablets in Q1 2011

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In our latest HEXUS.TalkingShop interview, MSI’s new UK country manager gives us an update on company.

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"When numerous OEMs were contemplating their tablet offerings at the start of the year, it was against the backdrop of two major variables: how popular would both the iPad and Android be? By the middle of the year it had become clear that the answer to both was: very."

Really? I know only one person in the IT/Comms company I work for who owns an ipad (he's mac fantic anyway) and none of my friends has one so who is actually buying these?

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Originally Posted by cheesemp

"When numerous OEMs were contemplating their tablet offerings at the start of the year, it was against the backdrop of two major variables: how popular would both the iPad and Android be? By the middle of the year it had become clear that the answer to both was: very."

Really? I know only one person in the IT/Comms company I work for who owns an ipad (he's mac fantic anyway) and none of my friends has one so who is actually buying these?

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Lots of people, apparently: http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=25635

These numbers are obviously still small compared to overall PC sales, but are big enough to reassure OEMs of demand for the form-factor.

compared to the number of "Tablet PCs" in the old microsoft vision, huge numbers.

There is at least 300+ iPads in the company that I work, more iPhones than Blackberries...

Its just the way everything goes these days.