Advantage And Disadvantage Of Tablet Computer Essay

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This report covers findings of the usage of tablet computers to travelling sales people. The report provides information on how does the usage of tablet computers influences the sales to them and what good or bad does it bring to these travelling sales people. The first tablet computer was invented decades ago. However, people only responded to it when the first iPad was launched in the year 2010. Now, 5 years later, you can see a variety of tablets being offered in the market by different companies. The most common and popular ones would be the Apple’s iPads, the Samsung tablets, the Acer tablets, the Asus tablets and the Lenovo tablets. With the advance in technology, more people are starting to use these devices due

Hence, I will only be talking about the advantages and disadvantages.

2.0 ADVANTAGES OF THE TABLET COMPUTERS TO TRAVELLING SALES PEOPLE

As mentioned earlier, the tablet computers are starting to get more response from people due to several factors which are its portability, improved access to business information and communication from any location and help to save time.

2.1 Portability

The tablets are built in such a way that they are thinner than laptops and also smaller in size compared to them. These makes it more convenient to carry around as it is lighter compared to the normal laptops and PCs. Since they are also small in size, they help to save a lot of space in packing the luggage especially since these sales people are always travelling so they would not need to bring an extra bag just to store the laptop. Besides that, these tablets are touchscreens so it provides an effective way to share and explain the documents during meetings or when presenting a product to the customers. Their touchscreen operation and excellent character recognition functions also make tablets easy to use for people who are not so comfortable in using

The disadvantages of the tablet computers to travelling sales people are loss or theft of sensitive information, limited view for a large crowd, and unauthorized access to sensitive information or applications.

3.1 Loss or Theft of Sensitive Information

Tablet computers can be considered as something which is unique and special, which will attract the eyes of thieves and tempt them to take it from you. Especially for the travelling sales people, they would probably just put them in their backpack and will never realise that the people behind them can just unzip their bag and take it out without them even realising. Since their tablet consists of important and highly secretive information, if the information falls into the wrong hand, it would definitely bring deadly effects that might ruin them or probably event their sales or