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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
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  . |
Yes, people use tablets here for work too. Or big smartphones. That doesn't prove anything.
Are you saying that people in New Zealand only use tablets for work? There are no personal tablets?
Or are you trying to tell us that people in New Zealand don't do anything but work. Don't read, don't have personal email. Wait, you are here. Are you using your company's internet to post here?
That is how I read your post.
Here there are are company tablets and personal tablets.
That plumber you mentioned probably has both. I couldn't even begin to tell you how someone uses a tablet. If the person bought it, it is probably for pleasure. If the company bought it, it is probably for work. Oh and horror of horrors, some people own more than one personal tablet.