Apple to Release a Touch Screen Tablet Computer

Apple has always had the pow­er and the brains to dive into the Tablet ​“PC” mar­ket. I am not sure why they have not released their own touch-screen Mac in the last few years. Their iPhones and iTouch devices are incred­i­ble, so the tech­nol­o­gy is def­i­nite­ly there! Tablet com­put­ers, for those of you who don’t know, are basi­cal­ly a lap­top with ​“touch” capa­bil­i­ties. How­ev­er, most Tablet com­put­ers can only be touched using a sty­lus (pen). Only a very small hand­ful of Tablet PCs on the mar­ket allow for fin­ger touch­ing, such as HP. Tablet com­put­ers are an incred­i­ble inven­tion for ser­vice com­pa­nies, espe­cial­ly paint­ing con­trac­tors. I first start­ed using a Tablet for esti­mat­ing over 5 years ago. I would say that my time was cut in half by being able to pro­duce an esti­mate in the field with a client vs. tak­ing notes and mea­sure­ments and doing the pro­pos­al back at the office. I have def­i­nite­ly closed more deals with the help of the Tablet. Why? Because I have more face-time with the own­er. I can pro­vide them ball­parks and/​or fixed num­bers on the spot. If I have to leave the jobsite/​home, my chances of sell­ing just went down. The prob­lem I have found with Tablet PCs main­ly is the cost and the reli­a­bil­i­ty of the machines. A good Tablet PC with MS Office can cost as much as $3,000. The oth­er expense is one they break. I have rebuilt my Toshi­ba Tablet 2 times and a Motion Com­put­ing Tablet at least two times. Thanks to Steve Jobs, it appears Apple will final­ly jump into the Tablet mar­ket and be pro­duc­ing their very own machine to the pub­lic lat­er this year. I hope it is as easy to use as the iPhone. Net­books have real­ly tak­en off the past year, which is prob­a­bly the main rea­son Apple began tin­ker­ing with the idea of pro­duc­ing some­thing bet­ter. Believe me…whatever Apple decides to release will be incred­i­ble. To read more about the Apple Tablet and see some pos­si­ble ideas of what it will look like: View this site.