There isn't a tablet market because there isn't a need for them. The iPad is popular for reasons that the buyers can't give you (prior to purchase). They just

There isn't a tablet market because there isn't a need for them. The iPad is popular for reasons that the buyers can't give you (prior to purchase). They just know that they want one. My girlfriend is the target audience for an iPad. She's not great at computers, she consumes media but doesn't create her own. She wanted an iPad and so I got her one for Christmas. She loved it, at least at first. But I rarely see her using it (and I don't use mine much either). When she wants to get on the internet quickly she pulls out her macbook. The iPad really is a device that you use for a specific purpose, it's not the low-level general purpose machine that it's made out to be. I would say ditto for the rest of the tablets as well. I don't think it's because tablets are a bad idea, I just don't think they are very good at this point. They can't keep up with a desktop web browser (the reason most people use computers) and they aren't very easy to use.