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Im just happy that tablets are finally dead. You have a super supped up desktop computer at home sitting on your desk, and you have a relatively supped up smart

Im just happy that tablets are finally dead. You have a super supped up desktop computer at home sitting on your desk, and you have a relatively supped up smart phone sitting in your pocket when you cant be sitting at your desk. Where does tablets fit into this scenario? It doesn't. All tablets do is make app developers think they can somehow make app experiences you can only achieve on the desktop, somehow attainable on the go. sorry for the bad grammar. kinda tipsy

fireattack 8y ago
Read books and watch videos in the bed. For me at least.
- whatsstolat 8y ago
  > watch videos I prefer a laptop for this as I can sit it down. Plus the bigger screen.
wepple 8y ago
I don’t want to read a book or watch a few YouTube clips or browse twitter whilst sitting at my desk in my office, nor do I want to poke at a tiny screen. Tablets are thriving, just not android tablets.
- izacus 8y ago
  Even Android tablets are still selling very well. Just not the 500$ models competing with iPads. People buy 200$ Chinese models because they provide the same experience for most tablet use cases.
  - GalacticDomin8r 8y ago
    Yep pretty hard to beat my Lenovo Tab 2 10 for my purpose and have used tablets daily for years. M
sundvor 8y ago
I love my Galaxy Tab S2 ~8" tablet for reading technical books. Absolutely gorgeous AMOLED screen, 4:3 aspect which is a delight when using black themed presentation.
octorian 8y ago
Just try using a laptop on an airplane whose seats were laid out any time in the past 20 years. There simply isn't enough space in front of you to accommodate the geometry of it anymore. This was the first use case of mine where tablets were absolutely superior. Oh, and battery life in these scenarios as well. Really, pretty much anything involving traveling and wanting to use a larger screen in a "less comfortable" scenario. When at home or work in my typical "sitting at a desk" or "out and about" mode, you're right. Its either a phone or a real computer.

fireattack 8y ago

Read books and watch videos in the bed. For me at least.

whatsstolat 8y ago
> watch videos I prefer a laptop for this as I can sit it down. Plus the bigger screen.

wepple 8y ago

I don’t want to read a book or watch a few YouTube clips or browse twitter whilst sitting at my desk in my office, nor do I want to poke at a tiny screen. Tablets are thriving, just not android tablets.

izacus 8y ago
Even Android tablets are still selling very well. Just not the 500$ models competing with iPads. People buy 200$ Chinese models because they provide the same experience for most tablet use cases.
- GalacticDomin8r 8y ago
  Yep pretty hard to beat my Lenovo Tab 2 10 for my purpose and have used tablets daily for years. M

sundvor 8y ago

I love my Galaxy Tab S2 ~8" tablet for reading technical books. Absolutely gorgeous AMOLED screen, 4:3 aspect which is a delight when using black themed presentation.

octorian 8y ago

Just try using a laptop on an airplane whose seats were laid out any time in the past 20 years. There simply isn't enough space in front of you to accommodate the geometry of it anymore. This was the first use case of mine where tablets were absolutely superior. Oh, and battery life in these scenarios as well. Really, pretty much anything involving traveling and wanting to use a larger screen in a "less comfortable" scenario. When at home or work in my typical "sitting at a desk" or "out and about" mode, you're right. Its either a phone or a real computer.