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Not at all. Although not fast growing, tablets are still great business. Not all people like to carry those monstrous phones in their pockets. Even if you do, i
by sytelus 7y ago
Not at all. Although not fast growing, tablets are still great business. Not all people like to carry those monstrous phones in their pockets. Even if you do, its hard to enjoy details while streaming high def content, planning trip, reading books with pictures/diagrams, do email jujitsu, play high def games and so on. Tablets are far more popular among kids age < 10. I see the transition where laptops would be largely extinct and tablets with keyboard dock would be a norm. It has already happened but not yet full scale. The future user base would be divided between two groups where power users would own tablets + phone while more typical users would own only phone. Giving up on tablets entirely is unwise. Power users are minority but they have lions share of influence.
- rightos 7y agoA tablet and dock is clumsy and a poor experience compared to a laptop in both hardware and software. I would never consider replacing a desktop OS with iOS or Android in their current states, I think Samsung did some work to improve multi-window support so perhaps that's worth a look, but I don't want a sloppy keyboard that folds randomly when I'm trying to type or I can't position comfortably on my lap on a car, bus or while sitting outside. After owning a few older iPads and Nexus tablets, I haven't used them in years, instead preferring to do content consumption on my phone or TV and anything more on a full PC. Most people say they even prefer to do basic shit like shopping on PCs - easier to comparison shop, bigger screens, more capable machines and user interfaces. This situation isn't going to improve for tablets, they're trying to hit on a niche that's quite limited.