I see tablets and PCs merging more in the future, as the current trends indicate. Tablets will become smarter, PCs dumber. They'll meet somewhere in the middle.

I see tablets and PCs merging more in the future, as the current trends indicate. Tablets will become smarter, PCs dumber. They'll meet somewhere in the middle. That being the case, the market is too big, and too important, to have 1 single hardware/software vendor dominate it in the way iPod dominated the music player market. The iPod's dominance had a negative effect on that market; it effectively killed it. And once Apple found something more profitable, they stopped innovating on it as well.