Hi Mihai, On 9 February 2016 at 17:34, Mihai Barbat <[email protected]> wrote:
> I will try to play a little bit the devil's advocate here! > > How does this go together with the future, trying to disrupt a new domain, > basically the IoT speech that we got from the Connected Devices team and > the present where the tablets are declining year after year and generate > very little interest in the eyes of the consumers? > The way I see this is that the tablet would mainly be used as a companion or control device for connected devices which don't have a UI of their own, as an important piece of the puzzle in the connected home. I think the fact that tablet sales have flattened out is an indication they have reached a new stage in their product lifecycle, where simplicity and convenience are likely to be more valued than technical specifications and a long list of features. I also think this is a great point in the product lifecycle to bring a more future proof standards-based solution, and I think the technology landscape is now at a point where this is possible. There are over a billion tablet users in the world, so I don't think there's a problem with the total addressable market being too small. If current offerings seem uninteresting, maybe that market is ripe for disruption. While I'm very excited by the opportunity to contribute to new standards in the Internet of Things space, those technologies are at a much earlier stage in their product lifecycle and it will take many years for those standards to emerge. A tablet is a product which complements that effort, but which has immediate value for end users today.
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