How about at amusement parks like Disney where there are lines of people waiting to buy tickets? Have ticket sellers walking along the line making sales wirelessly? Plus allow customers to reserve time for certain rides/attrations?
How about at PDC??? Standing taking notes as you converse with all those MS brainiacs. (Damn, wish I could go this year.)
I propose an experiment. I suggest you blog for 24 hours with pen only. Tell us how it goes. Standing up would be an added bonus. BTW Hemmingway used to write standing up but the typewriter was on a chest of drawers.
Maryam, smack Rob around. He's not doing his best work. Rob, surely you can do better than this list. How many of us are outfitting pit crews @ Indy? A lot of the other scenarios are dubious, too - wine lists, paper notepads, or PocketPCs would cover most of them. I'm considering a tablet (I'm thinking about a Toshiba 3500), but I need a good reason why I would spend an extra $1000 for less processing power, less RAM, and no DVD drive.
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Vertical markets are huge. Tablet PCs are already successful in the limited vertical niche market; the current Win XP version is just extending things out to a wider range of uses and making things more mass market. Once price/performance ratios meet the supply/demand curve, and once implementation is ramped up, Tablet PCs are a steady market in things vertical. And with so much extra, its a long term winner. Pen Computing has been quite an elusive goal, and a mountian heap of failed past projects, but as Alan Kay has said, “Microsoft’s Tablet PC, the first Dynabook-like computer good enough to criticize.” (Source: Steven Levy, Newsweek - “Bill Gates Says, Take This Tablet”, April 30, 2001, pp.67-70)
Health Care / Bedside Patient charting/care.
Real Estate Industry
Oil/Gas Industry
Electric/Nuclear Power and Utility Industry.
Parts Inventory and etc.
Supply Chain Management / Inventory
Peace Officer Industry (Fire, Police)
Military (HUGE market)
Warehouse (Huge)
Insurance/Financial
Transportation Industry
Retail Industry (Inventory, Data lookup)
Paper notepads or Pocket PCs? Hard to store massive amounts of data in a paper notebook, and forget about images and complex database searching. And Pocket PCs, tho they have their place, are not powerful enough, don’t have a full OS and the screen size is just too small.
Tablet PC prices are coming down rapidly, and the machines are getting better CPUs and tweaking out better performance, the new Acer is a speed demon. Granted not everything is perfect, no fuel-cells or solid state hard drives, but at some point these technologies will be mass market. 
Why spend extra for less? As the value-add in the Tablet PC software functionality has a worth beyond just the straightline hardware comparisons. Pay more for less in one aspect, but get far more in another. I guess I come down on the side of the Ink-functionality as a serious value add, that is worth extra. And with every generation, prices go further down.
Also it is not a ‘Laptop vs. Tablet PC’ war. Not a zero sum game, as in some things keyboards will always be foremost, but that doesn’t dismiss the Tablet PC concept unto itself. Room for both. And also Handwriting Reco, is not the sum total of Tablet PCs, Handwriting Reco is quite the imperfect Science as no one ever writes exactly the same. To say that Tablet PCs are not of worth because the Handwriting Reco engine is not perfect is to miss the whole Pen Computing concept. Value in many other areas, and quite nice to treat Ink as Ink.
Hi,
I own a Tablet PC (HP TC 1000). Although I don't have a solution to use it for programming yet, I never use it with a keyboard and actually don't input on it very much 
My primary usage is web browsing/mail checking from my couch or bed.
Messenger 6 (with Ink sent as Ink) is cool too, but requires the receiver to have v6 installed too.
3 things missing (for me) on the Tablet:
- location bar in Mozilla that would popup a "context" TIP,
- annotation in all documents (event the ones that are online), with all my annotations kept on my server at home,
- a way to program (maybe a combination of ink reco + lots of intellisense).
Cheers
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Has anyone looked at the xThink (www.xthink.com) Math demos?
I see a match for the walk and talk analysis required during startup and operations of facilties in O&G, Pharma, etc. Plus teaching engineering students about flow, pressure, stress, dynamic systems etc.
Perhaps just rambling here but check out
http://www.gottabemobile.com/
Rob Bushway article and others
http://www.gottabemobile.com/
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