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I bought it entirely to do drawing during skype tutoring sessions. Now I'm also using it with Astropad to make drawings for screencasts.
When I had an iPhone 4, I started doing a few other tasks on the iPad as well. But now that I have a larger, faster phone, I have no desire to be on the iPad apart from the things I can only do on the iPad.
Remember how the tablet was going to totally destroy desktop computing? That said, tablets are a little bit better for reading, or for "computing in bed" and those sorts of things.
The original author is a bit of a fool to discount the tablet upgrade cycle, IMO. Why tech forecasters always ignore the facts is beyond me. But then again, very few economist-marketing types have any idea what an externality is.
Here is a hint: "desktop sales are declining" is a natural consequence of "tablet sales are increasing", just as "stagnating tablet sales" is a natural consequence of "current generation tablet saturation".
I see a trend where people want smaller phones. The current phone are getting too big and people are getting fed up.
Secondly, I bought my wife a tablet 6 months ago, and she haven't used the laptop since.
Tablets have clearly peaked, but I don't think they will be going away anytime soon.
My observation has always been, tablets; specifically iPads; are too expensive for what they are doing. That and just because its an Apple tablet doesn't mean I need to pair it up against an apple laptop. Hence cost comparison is done against other laptops which are priced even lower than the iPad at times. Its hard to get excited by technology when every price point is four hundred and up. How many items do they wan…
Apple products have always been obscenely overpriced, this it a bit easier to digest when you move outside of the Apple ecosphere and new technologies do not have such a financial impact.
Since I got an iPhone six I find myself using my iPad far less for anything but drawing. I bought it entirely to do drawing during skype tutoring sessions. Now I'm also using it with Astropad to make drawings for screencasts. When I had an iPhone 4, I started doing a few other tasks on the iPad as well. But now that I have a larger, faster phone, I have no desire to be on the iPad apart from the things I can only do…
There's several things to disagree with here. I see a trend where people want smaller phones. The current phone are getting too big and people are getting fed up. Secondly, I bought my wife a tablet 6 months ago, and she haven't used the laptop since. Tablets have clearly peaked, but I don't think they will be going away anytime soon.
Personally, I would love a revamped "Droid 1". I'm really craving the rugged metal chassis, h/w slide keyboard, and small size. Unfortunately, each of those is exactly what drives up cost. Premium materials, moving parts, and miniaturization/layout are where the money goes.
This is where "perceptual computing" and in particular 3D sensing comes in. Both smartphones (too small for a decent sensor, battery life and screen issues) and laptops (too bulky to handle) have sub-optimal form factors for this but tablets are perfect.
Take a look at Google Tango [1] for instance or -- shameless plug -- my own company DotProduct [2]. We have been doing this for a while and have tried many different platforms for 3D capture and what we found is that tablets just feel by far the most natural in this environment.
[1] https://www.google.com/atap/project-tango/ [2] http://dotproduct3d.com/
John Gruber had a good observation about the charts published in Quartz (specifically the last one): "Apple has sold more iPads in its first 57 months than they sold iPhones in its first 57 months." http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/04/27/quartz-chartz-ap... http://qz.com/392202/were-live-charting-apples-second-quarte... If Apple pumped out over 250 million iPads, a great majority of which is probably still in us…
I use my iPad all the time, but primarily for reading and watching movies and TV shows. My three-year-old iPad does these things great and there's simply no reason to upgrade.
There's several things to disagree with here. I see a trend where people want smaller phones. The current phone are getting too big and people are getting fed up. Secondly, I bought my wife a tablet 6 months ago, and she haven't used the laptop since. Tablets have clearly peaked, but I don't think they will be going away anytime soon.
Smartphones are getting bigger and tablets are getting obsolete.
I have a 6.1" Smartphone and stopped using my tablet with this. Before that I had a tiny phone and a tablet.