James Kendrick was wondering during his first Tablet PC podcast how many Tablets PCs have sold and now he has the answer: slightly over one million. Naturally, Scoble isn’t excited (not!):

At any other company that’d be considered an outstanding success. Getting a million people to do ANYTHING is pretty tough.

Wasn’t it Bill Gates who said at CES that the Media Center had sold around 1.5 million Media Center PCs? Obviously adoption rate for both Tablet PC and Media Center has not met Microsoft expectations and I’m somewhat curious what those expections are? Did they expect to have 10 million units of each sold by now worldwide?

The other part of what Scoble wrote is even more interesting:

The functionality that lets you be able to use a pen (or, even, your finger) to use ink on screen will just be something that every PC will ship with. There’s all sorts of interesting stuff coming for computers with digitizers built in.

Now that is a great idea, if it really does come to fruition. Why not employ every laptop computer with digitizer capabilities? How much can it really cost to throw in a pen, add the necessary screen hardware and OS software? Heck, it would be cool to be able to have writing capabilities on every monitor. There are times that a mouse is clumsy like circling something on screen, for example.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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