Yes, I found that assertion to be ridiculous as well. Hardware has changed radically. Old tablets had battery life of 3 hours, new tablets 8-10 hours. Old t

Yes, I found that assertion to be ridiculous as well. Hardware has changed radically. Old tablets had battery life of 3 hours, new tablets 8-10 hours. Old tablets weighed 4lb, new tablets 1lb. Old tablets needed a stylus or used poor resistive single touch screens. New tablets use responsive multitouch screens. Old tablets were dependent on wifi and did not have GPS. New tablets can have constant connectivity and can include awesome location based services. Old tablets cost ~$1k or more. New tablets cost < $500. Old tablets mostly ran Windows that was relatively poorly adapted to tablets. New tablets run beautiful dedicated tablet OSes. There's just no comparison at all between these products, there's no way you can just make an assertion about the market for them being the same.