Tablets have long since been marketed 'vertically', there are even tablets out there today that have been modified to better function for some applications.
For instance (but certainly not limited to), insurance appraisers, real estate brokers, delivery services,restaurants and yes, the medical industry.
But not in all cases were these successful.
Apple has become very much a mass market producer, I fail to see why they would want to specifically target a niche with their product.
More likely than not it will simply be a general consumer device that gets 'adopted' by verticals.
Another big issue with using a consumer device for a vertical market is theft, there had better be a very solid way to make sure that those tablets laying around in hospitals don't grow little legs all by themselves.
Anything in a hospital that is of pocket size, valuable, not nailed down and guarded by a rotweiler tends to walk out.
For instance (but certainly not limited to), insurance appraisers, real estate brokers, delivery services,restaurants and yes, the medical industry.
But not in all cases were these successful.
Apple has become very much a mass market producer, I fail to see why they would want to specifically target a niche with their product.
More likely than not it will simply be a general consumer device that gets 'adopted' by verticals.
Another big issue with using a consumer device for a vertical market is theft, there had better be a very solid way to make sure that those tablets laying around in hospitals don't grow little legs all by themselves.
Anything in a hospital that is of pocket size, valuable, not nailed down and guarded by a rotweiler tends to walk out.