My tablet doesn't do much more these days than serve as an e-reader. I use it to read books, Pocket articles, and RSS feeds, primarily. I very occasionally use

My tablet doesn't do much more these days than serve as an e-reader. I use it to read books, Pocket articles, and RSS feeds, primarily. I very occasionally use it to watch some downloaded videos as well, either on a plane or at the gym. But otherwise, there's little on it I do that I couldn't probably do on a Kindle or a Kobo. Nonetheless, I'm not convinced that this is really a problem, assuming you didn't pay an arm and a leg for yours. I paid somewhere between $200-$300 for my 2013 Nexus 7, it's held up for about four years now, and I still use the thing regularly. Tablets sales are down in part, I imagine, because nearly everyone who wants a tablet already has one, and if the one you bought was above a certain threshold (i.e. Not Crap), you can comfortably use the thing for several years without needing to upgrade. Manufacturers need to realize that tablets are not phones, particularly as phones get bigger and more useful; people aren't going to upgrade their tablets every two years. Nor should they. Case in point, I'm fine with the stock OS on it at the moment, but when I decide I no longer want to use it as is, I have at least three other OS's I could potentially load onto it, such as: - MaruOS (http://maruos.com/#/ http://maruos.com/#/) - Kali Nethunter (https://www.kali.org/kali-linux-nethunter/ https://www.kali.org/kali-linux-nethunter/) - LineageOS