I was all in on tablets when they first started out. I've had the original iPad, the Motorola Xoom, the HP Touchpad, and many more including convertibles like t

I was all in on tablets when they first started out. I've had the original iPad, the Motorola Xoom, the HP Touchpad, and many more including convertibles like the Asus Transformer. I really wanted tablets to be the future and replace at least my desktop, but all these years later it hasn't worked out. I've still got two tablets, and iPad mini that I mostly use to read either PDF or pictureful rulebooks for table top games that won't work on my Kindle and a Dell Venue 8 Pro that mostly goes unused and I kept it around with the idea of working on a good tablet UI for Linux, but haven't had time or really the desire to do that. When my wife's Galaxy Tab died, rather that get a new Android tablet or an iPad, she opted to just upgrade her laptop to a convertible(ZenBook Flip) that mostly gets used in plain old laptop mode. Even my kids who have had some kind of tablets for some time of their lives have started preferring "real" computers, especially daughter who is the oldest and gets how much more she can do on a real computer. I think for me What it boils down to was that there was nothing that tablets really did best. If I'm going to be sitting on the couch doing some web browsing or watching a movie, a keyboard is nice to have for the web browsing and for both it's nice to be able to side the laptop down rather than holding a tablet for log periods of time. And when I do need to be more mobile, phones handle that aspect just as well and maybe better if I need to be able to put said mobile device is a smaller-than-tablet-pocket. I think in the long term, the extent of tablets will largely be some kind of pseudo-tablet convertibles like the aforementioned ZenBook and probably fewer like the Transformer of the Surface Book and most tablets that do stick around with be Surface like holdouts that can't more easily be converted into real computer mode.