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That's a really good point, PC tablets have pretty much been a failure. My DR uses one for medical records and prescriptions, Other than that I have never seen one in use any where else. ( I know their a dime a dozen on ebay and craigslist)
Funny you mentioned that as it's been my experience as well. We have about 50 nurses that use them at my company, but they've never really used the touch capabilities. Once they got their workflow figured out, they pretty much just started using them as lightweight laptops (we have convertible tablets).
Our OBGYN that we used when my wife was pregnant with our first son had one, and he used it like a laptop, but used the pen instead of a mouse. Otherwise, that's the extent of the Tablet PCs I've seen deployed in the field.
Another good point you made was that MS is not designed around touch and this most likely contributed to the failure of the PC tablet. The iPhone OS Is exclusively touch.
I think if non Apple tablets take off they will most likely be Android powered.
Agreed. ChromeOS, in particular, seems like a natural fit for a Tablet style device. And since it's Linux, it can scale very nicely and still have the same secure, resilient nature of OS X/iPhone OS. As much as I like to think of Google as being a Microsoft competitor, in recent years they are really positioning themselves well against Apple - much more so than Microsoft.