This may be accurate, for the most part, at least until voice recognition passes the turing test. Depending on when that happens, it's not clear whether we'll have input devices close enough to children's brains to bypass decorated-glass entirely.
Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over
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#152Not so fast. Tablets have yet to impact businesses that don't even use computers much. If you're in general contracting, a waitron, a delivery person, a trucker, an auto-mechanic, a repair tech, an oil-field worker and a host of other mostly paper-based or "non-computer" workflows, the tablet will eventually enter this area. The implications of this change are through-going and only barely begun. And it's mostly driven by cost / capability factors.
Furthermore there are other businesses that are just getting started using the Tablet.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
The difference in screen size between tablets and phones is much less apparent now than it was 2 or 3 years ago.
Now we've got "phablets," which are bad at being phones (awkward and clumsy to carry around, and almost impossible to operate with one hand) and bad at being tablets (small screen for a tablet, inherently greater limitations on battery life)... > Yay?
I have a non-geek friend who has a Note. She loves it.
She's already used to having to charge her phone every night, because while her old phone might've lasted 2-3 days it was easier just charging it every night.
She holds it two-handed, portrait, to text and interact with facebook, and did with a smaller phone too because she can type much faster that way.
She's comfortable reading on it.
It fits in her pockets fine.
I prefer my Nexus 4 + Nexus 7 as an approach, but for a bunch of people, yes, yay.
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#154My love affair with the tablet isn't over: I love how it lets me browse the web, read books and magazines, and watch videos in bed after a long day. That's probably how most people use their tablets — secondary devices, mainly for entertainment. After a working day, I don't want to use a PC, and the tablet lets me use the web and other media comfortably, but I wouldn't try to actually use it for work beyond initially…
> My love affair with the tablet isn't over: I love how it lets me browse the web, read books and magazines, and watch videos in bed after a long day. That's probably how most people use their tablets — secondary devices, mainly for entertainment.
That is how most people use their computers.
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#155> We teamed up with HP, Toshiba, NEC and Fujitsu, all of whom spent millions alongside Microsoft, and failed to create a bona fide category at the time. Why? “Tablet PCs,” as they were known, required a stylus (versus today’s touch-interaction model), and more importantly, only had a few tablet-optimized apps. We now know that’s a recipe for disaster.
Yeah, and even more importantly they cost $2000 to $3000, and were very big and heavy.
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#156Although I own three tablets, my love affair with the tablet as it exists today never really took off the same way it did for so many consumers. The primary reason is that I do not believe that tablets should be first-class computing devices. Tablets, and in my opinion, the entirety of what we today call "mobile," should be subservient to a general computing model of personal omnipresent applications [1]. Put more co…
I agree with you (especially about Microsoft.) I've been saying for years that there is a killer opportunity for Microsoft in the enterprise: develop a single platform for serving applications that serves a tablet view to tablet users, a desktop view to desktop users and a mobile view to mobile users. Basically, enable the hell out of BYOD because the PC is disappearing. They can make the money they lose in Windows l…
I've been saying for years that there is a killer opportunity for Microsoft in the enterprise: develop a single platform for serving applications that serves a tablet view to tablet users, a desktop view to desktop users and a mobile view to mobile users.
My startup is doing things that way (although not for Microsoft products, obviously). Being able to create an 'app' that is write once, run well on Desktop/Tablet/Mobile, with efficient UIs on all of them, is pretty dang useful, at least in the business market.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Now we've got "phablets," which are bad at being phones (awkward and clumsy to carry around, and almost impossible to operate with one hand) and bad at being tablets (small screen for a tablet, inherently greater limitations on battery life)... > Yay?
Really? You sound like most tech journalists two or three years ago, when the original Galaxy Note came out. They were sure embarrassed a couple months later when they turned out to be completely wrong about how popular it would be. Try getting out of the iPhone bubble for a while - you'll find that in the real world, phablets are not just something that you make fun of.
I don't have an iphone. I have an Android phone which is larger (65mm width) than an iphone 5, but decidedly smaller than a phablet.
My phone is just on the edge of one-hand usability (I can mostly manage it but sometimes things get pretty awkward) and I often wish I had something iphone-sized instead, but choice is pretty limited among smaller Android phones (they exist, but tend to be old/slow/etc).
People I know with phablets use them like tablets (almost always with two hands etc). That's fine if you want a small tablet, but it isn't really an adequate replacement for a traditional smartphone. They're just different things.
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#158I really don't get why people like tablets. I gave it a try with an ipad air, but I sold it. There's nothing I can do on a tablet that I can't do more efficiently on my laptop. As soon as typing is involved, the laptop is much better.
Even for things that don't involve using the keyboard, I prefer my laptop. The screen is much bigger and stays in place more easily.
Really, I don't see how anyone that knows how to use a keyboard could prefer a tablet to a laptop. The only advantage I see is portability, and ease of use for technophobics.
Well, maybe I'm getting old and can't adjust to new technology.
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#159The article is wrong in at least two ways: 1. The Bad Experience cited is with Windows tablets. This ignores how hard it is to move a non-touch system to tablets. 2. He cites Netflix "losing momentum" on tablets. If this was true for media use on tablets in general, Amazon would not be pouring as much effort as they are into tablets. Google has done a bad job marketing Android on tablets. Apple has done a great job w…
> If this was true for media use on tablets in general, Amazon would not be pouring as much effort as they are into tablets.
Amazon, unlike Netflix, is worried about being kicked out of the iOS ecosystem. Kindle (and all the other major eBook apps) already came close at least once. Unless Amazon was convinced that media use on tablets was going to collapse (not just plateau), they desperately need the deterrent and the insurance policy.
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#160I really don't get why people like tablets. I gave it a try with an ipad air, but I sold it. There's nothing I can do on a tablet that I can't do more efficiently on my laptop. As soon as typing is involved, the laptop is much better. Even for things that don't involve using the keyboard, I prefer my laptop. The screen is much bigger and stays in place more easily. Really, I don't see how anyone that knows how to use…
Try using your laptop in bed, or in the toilet, or in the subway, the bus, the waiting room in the doctor's office...