Confusion Reigns In Wide Open Tablet Market

The tablet market represents a splintering of the computer market with multiple operating system platforms vying for attention. PC magazine provides a little orientation.

"Can you feel it? The computing market is fracturing apart as multiple vendors deliver not only a variety of new tablet computers, but a hodge-podge collection of operating system platforms. Just this week, Research in Motion unveiled the PlayBook, a QNX-based 7-inch tablet that should ship sometime later this year.

That's right, I said QNX. It's a platform RIM bought in April and one with which I have almost no familiarity. So let's see. We have..."