Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over
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Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over
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#2The initial tablet market struck me as a very boomer focused device, one that made computing easy for a limited subset of tasks.
I think he's wrong that tablets have peaked. As the software and hardware on tablets catches up to the capability of a full laptop, they are a much more compelling device for use at home or at work. Content creation, software development and file management are still a challenge but these can be fixed.
I really hope the Surface and derivatives catch on in the enterprise, because I'm tired of lugging a 7lb laptop to and from meetings.
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#3I bought a tablet for travel because I don't really care if I have a smart phone or not. I didn't really think it would replace things with keyboards and I still really like it for travel.
The real problem is that cross device integration is so awful, hopefully the future has us configuring environments instead of devices (environment there being the software I want to see when I look at a small touch screen or the software I want to see when I look at a large screen with a keyboard).
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#4The initial tablet market struck me as a very boomer focused device, one that made computing easy for a limited subset of tasks. I think he's wrong that tablets have peaked. As the software and hardware on tablets catches up to the capability of a full laptop, they are a much more compelling device for use at home or at work. Content creation, software development and file management are still a challenge but these c…
My yoga 2 pro has completely allowed me to replace two devices. The only possible advantage a dedicated tablet has would be size/weight, but I've yet to encounter that in my purely anecdotal usage
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#5The initial tablet market struck me as a very boomer focused device, one that made computing easy for a limited subset of tasks. I think he's wrong that tablets have peaked. As the software and hardware on tablets catches up to the capability of a full laptop, they are a much more compelling device for use at home or at work. Content creation, software development and file management are still a challenge but these c…
2-in-1 PCs are great, Windows 8 notwithstanding. I just got a Thinkpad Yoga and being able to work in tablet mode when I'm stuck in cramped seat on a train or plane is fantastic. I'm also encouraged by the return of pen-based digitizers. I know it's a small niche, but for designers and artists, it's quite nice.
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#6My love affair with touch screens is over. What a coincidence.
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#7I never really got tablets - too big to be portable and crippled by the lack of usable input devices. My 11" Macbook Air is just about as portable as an iPad, but is way easier to use, not just for streaming, but even for coding, etc. Of course, I've been wrong about things before and I'm not really a typical consumer user, but I just can't imagine a future for tablets with phones getting as good as they are, and small laptops being as slim and powerful as they are.
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#8Not sure how a nearly 30% YOY increase in tablet sales for Q4 translates to a dead market, unless they thought tablets would end up as full replacements for existing systems. Few people are replacing their other computing devices for tablets, but obviously a large number of people see, and will continue to see, tablets as good secondary devices. I suspect, however, that replacement cycles for tablets will be longer than for phones (which cycle out on contracts) or PCs (driven by corporate platforming schedules).
Anecdotally, I lug around a smartphone, laptop, iPad and Kindle, but I can collapse the last three into the iPad for a lot of daily nontechnical tasks. (Hell, I can even prototype Python on it.) It's not a necessary part of my kit, but I'll keep one around for convenience alone.
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#9My love affair with touch screens is over. What a coincidence.
Mine has never begun.
I don't feel lonely, though. I have a keyboard.
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#10Lots of sales people use it for presentations, since it weighs less than a laptop, but has a bigger screen than a phone.
Also makes a great e-book reader.
Definitely not a laptop replacement.