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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.
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Sadly, I don't live in the US but I'm moderately certain that even south of the border, tablets owned by individuals outnumber corporate tablets.
Locally, it seems quite a few corporate tablets are in use (one local restaurant uses iPad Touches for inputting orders as an example) but going by the corporate vs. personal sales numbers (1), personal use tablets outsell corporate use tablets by a considerable margin by number sold though the corporate tablets tend to be from the more expensive end of the price curve. Admittedly, from my view in IT, our corporate tablets are being used more for personal uses than corporate uses while others may be using their personal tablets for work purposes.
(1) Depending on whose numbers you want to believe, they tend to be all over the place.
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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
Also widely used for pleasure, but I am told phones' vibrators are more effective for that  . |
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