You're confounding peoples preference for usability (including portability) with a preference for applications with low computational demands. If you could pac

You're confounding peoples preference for usability (including portability) with a preference for applications with low computational demands. If you could pack the "extreme gamer" capabilities of a Playstation or an Xbox into a format as "usable"[1] as an iPad... Then you would of engineered the next iPad. The iPad was able to come into existence because we've finally hit the point where we can cram that much computation into a small factor form (along with all the other engineering advances like wireless networking, reducing power consumption, improving display and improving battery life). Most of those advances are directly descended from the pushing of the bleeding edge. Companies / people are not simply going to go "oh we've got iPads now. So no need to make anything faster / better / bigger". [1] By usable I'm not talking about some magical Jobsian property of the device. I'm not even talking about the software interface. I'm talking about being able to surf the web / post to your blog / whatever while on the toilet. Try doing THAT in 1995.