No, they're in a transitional period. Stage 1 after the iPad came out was a boom of epic proportions. This was great in some ways because it helped finance the

No, they're in a transitional period. Stage 1 after the iPad came out was a boom of epic proportions. This was great in some ways because it helped finance the development of new hardware technologies, especially in regards to mobile cpus, batteries, and high resolution screens. But there's a dark side to this boom. It was actually too easy to make a huge profit, which led to laziness and a lack of true innovation. Thinner/lighter/higher-res/faster is great but that's only half, at best, of the end user experience. Tablets more or less languished as little more than what they started out as: glorified content consumption devices. But tablets and the general "space" around the tablet idea have so much greater potential than the iPad-like experience we've mostly had so far. But because there wasn't much pressure to do more, and money was still raining from the sky, that sort of thing hasn't been much explored. As the tablet market experiences hardship and contraction we'll see that innovation come forward (because it'll be the best way to make the most money in that market) and we'll see a renaissance in tablets over the next couple of years (I hope).