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The most interesting part to me is that the slate-only tablet form factor appears to be dying. This is surprising given that phones have completely adopted touc
by tweakz 11y ago
The most interesting part to me is that the slate-only tablet form factor appears to be dying. This is surprising given that phones have completely adopted touch over physical keys, and yet tablets seem to be headed back to supporting both.
- scholia 11y agoThat's really a figment of IDC's decision to count Microsoft Windows tablets and 2-in-1s as tablets when the tablet format is usually more incidental than essential. (1) It also means that IDC's PC industry numbers are also misleading. If somebody buys a Windows 2-in-1, that gets counted as a tablet and not counted as a PC. This makes the PC market decline look worse than it really is. (1) "Pure" Windows tablets -- ones with ARM chips that didn't run traditional x86 software -- crashed and burned.
- Spooky23 11y agoI don't think that's true at all -- I think they have the same lifecycle as a PC. I still use an iPad 2 pretty regularly... probably will buy a replacement next year, but I'm a cheapskate. Professionally, I have several hundred line of business users with iPad 3's. They are just starting to complain about battery life, etc. So you're looking at a 39-48 month lifespan, similar to a PC.