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Originally Posted by DNSB
..As you said, "it's a job machine". A statement I disagreed with since the majority of tablets around here are personal devices used for personal purposes...
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Here, New Zealand, tablets are widely used in business and government, especially technical. Widely used by trades people too, for example a couple of weeks back we had a plumber around and he did all his time keeping on a tablet and checked off against a boiler plate Bill of Materials the components he had used and their counts for the job - then all sent back to base for charge out.
Another example, my son recently provisioned a construction project (circa $750 million project) with IT - tablets for all engineers, quantity surveyors, contract managers, environment monitoring staff, etc. for field use, all to go with each person's similarly provisioned notebook and phone. All those and environment field sensors (water levels, turbidity, etc.) wide area networked on fibre and cellular.
In my experience similar to other countries. I would be most surprised if the US was not the same.
Also widely used for pleasure, but I am told phones' vibrators are more effective for that
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