Is a tablet a PC? [Video]

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Given the success of the iPad, you would think the world had discovered something new. But is a tablet really that different than a PC? Aren’t all the functions virtually the same? Or do tablets, with their new shape and touch interface, really represent a departure from the PC as we know it?

Matt Asay, senior vice president of business development at Strobe says tablets are fundamentally different, from the form factor through to the software and how they are used, and not merely an extension of the PC.

John Obeto, CEO & Chief Technology Officer of Logikworx says poppycock. Tablets are just the latest PC form factor and do all the usual stuff those boxes do. The real benefit will arrive when they become even more full fledged PC citizens.

Tablets are a revolution, not evolution of the PC

By Matt Asay, senior vice president of business development at Strobe

While tablets pay homage to the PC – …