Comments on: Who knows sales numbers? http://www.ultranauts.com/umpc/p,299/ Your #1 source for UMPC news, analysis and fun -- with an attitude! Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:27:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Perry http://www.ultranauts.com/umpc/p,299/#comment-1645 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:19:06 +0000 http://www.ultranauts.com/umpc/p,299/#comment-1645 I think it's "conventional wisdom" that tablets and UMPCs don't sell well. And, as usual with "conventional wisdom", it's probably wrong. Certainly Tablet PCs didn't exactly jump off the shelves when they were first introduced although from what I've seen sales are improving. I think a lot of less-informed tech writers assume that the same must be true of UMPCs, without any evidence to back that up. Of course a phrase like "hasn't live up to expectations" is generally worthless on its face, anyway. Whose expectations? What are those expectations? It's typically a filler statement, used when a writer has no empirical data. I think it’s “conventional wisdom” that tablets and UMPCs don’t sell well. And, as usual with “conventional wisdom”, it’s probably wrong. Certainly Tablet PCs didn’t exactly jump off the shelves when they were first introduced although from what I’ve seen sales are improving. I think a lot of less-informed tech writers assume that the same must be true of UMPCs, without any evidence to back that up.

Of course a phrase like “hasn’t live up to expectations” is generally worthless on its face, anyway. Whose expectations? What are those expectations? It’s typically a filler statement, used when a writer has no empirical data.

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