Xerox PARC. "tabs, pads, and boards." They've experimented with these form factors. Back in the '90s. One thing they said back then, pads -- that is, tablets -

Xerox PARC. "tabs, pads, and boards." They've experimented with these form factors. Back in the '90s. One thing they said back then, pads -- that is, tablets -- are not something you carried around as a personal device like your phone. It would be more like the tablets on Star Trek: The Next Generation. You left it in the room. You logged in with your credentials (using your tab, the phone; or I suppose now, it would be iBeacon). When you are done with the work, you left it in the room and go elsewhere. So you don't use it like a laptop or a phone. Duh. It also means that, at some point, we should see multi-user tablets where settings, files, etc. sync over the cloud, combined with sub-$99 tablets, that's when this kind of a workflow will start emerging. There's a similar romantic notion related to boards -- smart TVs. Eventually, I suspect the use-cases will converge on that old Xerox PARC research. It's when we start getting interactions among the three form factors we'll start to see some interesting things.