Tablets were once thick clunky pen-based
device but in 2010 Apple reinvented tablets to an advanced thin touchscreen
device with the launch of iPad. People were quite skeptical about their success
and doubted if they will fit between a smartphone and a laptop. However,
surprisingly, it sold 4.2 million copies in its first full quarter.
Tablets are smaller, lighter and more
portable than laptops and bigger and better performer than smartphones. Thus,
they proved to be the moderate devices which people start loving. Tablet PC manufacturers in India and
all around the world have worked to introduce tablets in all manners of
profiles and on a variety of platforms. These tablets have found their way in
all sectors of life be it education, personal computing or business. After the
introduction of the tablet in 2010, around 194 million tablets were sold in
2013 and the number is expected to increase to over 1 billion in 2018. The
reason for the growth of the Global Tablet Market is the advantages of tablets
over laptops.
One of the other reasons for this growth
was the growing demand for tablets in enterprises. Tablets such as iPad Pro,
Surface Pro 4 and other tablets are becoming more prevalent in the enterprise.
With this growth, it is often speculated that tablets will soon replace laptops
at the workplace. However, tablets may not replace PCs at the workplace but
they are expected to emerge as the preferred computing device in the near
future. This is because tablets give laptops a run for their money on several
fronts.
Size: To differentiate their
products from their competitors, tablets manufacturers in India and other
countries are introducing devices in varying sizes. Now you can find a tablet ranging
from 7 inches to more than 10.1 inches. This wide variety of sizes in tablets
gives business owners and employees an opportunity to choose one based on their
needs.
Performance: The processors and
graphics in tablets are virtually the same or better than laptops. In this
case, employees and employers will definitely go for a portable and better-performing
device. For example, the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 has the same processor as that
of MacBook Air with a better display and a longer battery life.
Portability: Undoubtedly, tablets
have taken over the laptops and PCs on portability. They are definitely lighter
devices even with a 12.9 inches display that of iPad Pro.
Longer
battery life:
It is always a hassle to carry laptop chargers and other cables with you while
handling a laptop. Even the best the of laptops have a battery life of not more
than 4 hours but a tablet can last for up to 10 hours. A tablet with longer
battery life is always a preferable device for people at the workplace so that
they need not plug in their devices while working.
Accessories: Traditionally, it was
hard to use tablets to give presentations in conference rooms and other
business settings. However, tablet PC manufacturing
in India and all around the world has taken one step up. Now, manufacturers
have introduced tablet compatible dongles, Wi-Fi enabled projectors and
streaming devices such as Apple TV to address that problem. Nowadays, there are
Bluetooth keyboards for tablets which when connected make tablets work exactly
like a laptop and sometimes even better than them.
There are different scenarios for using
tablets in organizations:
- Employee’s own device: Employees, for their office work, are increasingly adopting tablets. Even the 7% of global information workers are willing to pay the entire cost of tablet to take to work while additional 17% are willing to pay a proportion of the price with their money.
- Tablets for specific business roles: IT and business professionals consider Tablet PCs in India and other countries very useful in specific roles such as executives, travelling sales people and other heavy travellers and field workers.
- Vertical scenarios: Company owned tablets fit this scenario very well. For example, due to hyper-portability, doctors and nurses use tablets in patient-related scenarios and treatment-related scenarios.
With the above information, it is quite
clear that tablets will play a critical role at work. They will find their way
to work through direct purchasing by organizations or through Bring your Own
Device programmes for staff. Companies have started adopting BYOD policies
supported by management tools. For this, companies codify a set of policies,
published rules and processes so that workers will bring their own devices with
minimal difficulty.
It’s not only the
enterprise, which takes note of different benefits of tablets but tablets are
being adopted in various industries. For example, the health-care industry is
adopting tablets for their portability and the easy accessibility of
information. Tablets are convenient for healthcare professionals to explain the
cause, diagnosis, and treatment of any disease to their patients. The bright
and colorful screens help doctors to convey even the complicated information
with the greatest ease. With various advanced features in tablets, doctors can
now maintain health and medical records of patients easily instead of visiting
them individually.
Another area where tablets are being
widely used is the classroom education. Since the launch of tablets in 2010,
they become a great source to facilitate learning and make classroom education
better and more interesting for students. Even some of the countries are thinking
to replace all textbooks with tablets in schools and go digital.
In colleges and universities also,
tablets are quite useful as they are aligned with cloud-based solutions. This
gives students an opportunity to work from anywhere on the campus and all the
data will be saved in the main location. Any student can access that data from
his/her tablet.
With this, one can assume that tablets are
advantageous over laptops and with the rate of technological advancements;
there is no telling how important tablets will become in future. However, one
thing is clear today and i.e. more and more enterprises and industries are
picking tablets as their new “Go-To”
devices.
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