But they are beginning to look stretched with all important tablets like the 8.0 and 3.0 making little impact, compared with the S4, on a news environment that is busy with Apple rumors as we move closer to an iPhone 5S launch.
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After batting a bunch of ideas around, we were struck by an epiphany: for a lot of people, the most important use of tablets is to save themselves from Death by PowerPoint.
Amazon knows the accessibility of good, current video content is an important selling point for Kindle tablets.
And more important, both phones and tablets are increasingly making PCs less relevant, as the first part of this piece discussed last week.
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Wi-Fi is an important component for PCs and tablets as it provides the capability for users to access the internet wherever Wi-fi hotspots are available, typically for free.
An iWatch would showcase just how valuable the fan base is to Apple as its sales growth slows and as its rivals step up efforts to challenge the company in its most important markets, smartphones and tablets.
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Based on our analysis, we find the total impact on PC unit growth could be more severe than we are modeling if our cannibalization rate assumptions prove too conservative, thus making the success of Windows 8 tablets a very important offsetting revenue source.
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"Tablets are an important growth opportunity for wireless operators who are looking for new ways to drive data revenue, " said Dan Hays, a partner with the consulting firm PRTM, adding that Sprint and T-Mobile could be significantly hurt again by being shut out from the market leading device.
Gittins pointed out that in the last several years, eBooks and tablets have emerged as important form factors for consuming books.
However retro that may seem to the smartphone and tablet crowd, as we move into this new world of enterprise apps, smartphones and tablets will still have something important in common with their desktop brethren: the touch experience.
These guys understand chips, important if Google decides to build its own tablets or phones somewhere in the future.
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Thus, in the important high-mobility category (phones and tablets), where Apple and Google are cleaning up, Microsoft is 0 for 2.
Knowing how people read on tablets forced me to put the most important and useful takeaway up front, and let people discover the backstory if they were curious enough to read each chapter to the end.
One of the most important drivers for the rapid growth is the quick adoption of tablets in the corporate arena.
There are still things in the physical world that are going to be important: expert advice and the ability to see and touch the latest tablets.
Windows 8, Office 365, and PCs and tablets, both ours and those of our partners, all have an important place in classrooms.
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This channel has become important for retailers due to the growing online retail market and increasing use of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices.
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The opportunistic and strategic sides of it have to do with the fact that security is increasingly going to be more and more important in all types of computing, not just PCs and servers but in smartphones, tablets, ATM machines and Internet-connected cars.
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