I think it comes down to hardware vs. software. In the "PC" era your hardware was the sole determiner of what you could do with your machine. However, in the

I think it comes down to hardware vs. software. In the "PC" era your hardware was the sole determiner of what you could do with your machine. However, in the "Post PC" era the software has become just as important. Your tablet's API and App store policies now determine what you can and can't do. When you consider that software is much hard to provide comparable specs for than hardware, the falling importance of specs makes sense.