Yes, tablets are consumer devices. I'm not aware of any current/upcoming tablets that can be managed by corporate IT like a laptop or desktop

I have an idea for a tablet/phone app. Now I just need some time to write it.

>Exactly. the exec who uses his laptop for those purposes would have everything he ever needed with this thing and a docking station. I get that. But as I say, he never needed a real computer to begin with, just a jumped up pda. And between a phone and a cool slick netbook he has that now. Tablet with a docking station is just a touch screen version of that with detachable components and that probably makes more sense. Big screen is nice and he'll plug into that ( or use a Vr headset or whatever ) . The ASUS with the docking station looks like a very very cool netbook. I'm sure in another year SSD will be standard there.
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>My point is just these things are consumer devices, not personal computers as we know them now. and for a majority of the consumer population that will do the trick, and there will be, as there is now , a wide variety of sizes and styles. the gamers will scoop up vr headsets which will also be popular for video phone and VR travel. Travelers will have a hundred ways to use them and they will be tools that will interact with all kinds of commercial offering.
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>They are a new category of thing. But now that I really am seeing what the software for them does and the needs they fill I realize the only way I want to write software for them is if it is to extend custom business apps to perform some of their functions on a tablet or phone. But I don't think the demand for that ( beyond what web apps already do ) will be a big money maker for software architects, just another feature on enterprise apps.
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>But I have to say I'm not even mildly excited about writing the kind of apps that consumers would buy for phones or tablets - anymore than I'd want to write copy for magazine they read on airplanes.