Study: Majority of Kids Will Use Touchscreens by 2015
Study: Majority of Kids Will Use Touchscreens by 2015
Posted 04/07/2010 at 11:37am
| by Paul Lilly
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A new report by Gartner suggests that by the year 2015, your kids are going to make you feel old. Really old. The reason? They're going to look at you funny when you talk about growing up on PCs without touchscreens, which they'll find more horrific than when your folks used to talk about trekking to and from school 5 miles in a blizzard, uphill, both ways.
"What we're going to see is the younger generation beginning to use touchscreen computers ahead of enterprises," said Leslie Fiering, research vice president at Gartner. "By 2015, we expect more than 50 percent of PCs purchased for users under the age of 15 will have touchscreens, up from fewer than 2 percent in 2009. On the other hand, we are predicting that fewer than 10 percent of PCs sold to enterprises in 2015 for mainstream knowledge workers will have touchscreens."
The reason enterprises will be outpaced by 15-year-olds in adopting touchscreens is because of the heavy requirements for typing and text input, Gartner says. And as prices come down, schools will emerge as a major market to touch and pen-enabled devices, exposing kids to touchscreen computing at a younger age than ever before.
"Consensus among the Gartner client U.S. school districts is that over half, and possibly as many as 75 percent, will be specifying touch and/or pen input within the next five years," said Ms. Fiering. "Consider this as the precursor to a major upcoming generational shift in how users relate to their computing devices."
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Zazubovich
April 07, 2010 at 5:20pm
and they need to train a generation or two of Americans to push the picture of the Big Mac so they can fill your order. Welcome to WalMart, I love you. Mike Judge movie flashbacks omgwtfbbq in space.
festiva_man
April 07, 2010 at 4:50pm
So all of a sudden schools are going to adopt these huh? We are still teaching our kids on chalkboards for heavens sakes. That is shooting way high with these school budgets.
gendoikari1
April 07, 2010 at 2:30pm
I would still prefer a good old mouse and keyboard, given that my handwriting is illegible at best. Also, try playing any FPS/RTS/racing/fighting/sports/you get the picture game with touch controls.
MrMick
April 07, 2010 at 1:22pm
I took an introduction to programming class at San Jose State in 1979. The professor insisted that Cobol was the most important programming language in the world, and that we should all learn it by using punch-card machines--not because there weren't CRTs, mind you--just because he was convinced that's what we'd encounter if we decided to take up programming as a career choice and went looking for a job in the real world. The guy was nuts.
Trooper_One
April 07, 2010 at 12:26pm
.... in the old days, I was poking my eyes at a monitor that can only display in green or orange colour. I was amazed when the first mouse came out.
Even older days, before my existance, I heard people use 'punch-cards' to compute...
Neufeldt2002
April 07, 2010 at 12:22pm
Blocked by your filter
Short version. I'm blind, dirty screens make it harder to see.
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