Boy, we really have gone full circle on tablets — and not just once. Back when the Windows tablets first came to market, a whole bunch of us predicted it wouldn’t be long before they replaced all of the notebooks. I don’t think they even made it to 10 percent before the tablet market collapsed, and the pre-existing forms reclaimed their shares. Then the iPad launched, and a whole bunch of new folks claimed that tablets were the future and laptops were dead. Now Apple is reporting a year-over-year decline at 20 percent. What happened?
You may be a bit premature on this. There is a whole new market segment which, until recently, has been untapped by mainstream tech retailers. I'm talking about senior citizens who have taken to tablets in droves.
Churn Schmurn. If manufacturers want tablets to be taken seriously as desktop/laptop replacements they'll need to ditch the crappy tablet OSes and adopt more flexible, powerful and useful OSes ...ones more closely related to their laptop/desktop cousins.
I've owned numerous Apple products including its pads and mbps. I gave away the pads simply because they were little more than toys by comparison. Anything I could do on an iPad and could accomplish more effectively on an MBP...and countless other tasks.
Tablets have a couple glaring issues. One is they use only apps and not software. They are dumbed down to save space, and they rarely are as good as the software version. Second is that tablets because of the lack of storage space are generally cloud based storage devices. They store everything in either the proprietary cloud system like Apple's iCloud or some third party. Then a third issue for some is the lack of a keyboard and as much as people say they don't need one. You eventually see most tablets users buy some kind of keyboard. The whole touch screen input is rather basic and inaccurate for doing many tasks. Its ok to open a app that has a huge icon on the screen. But lacks good precision for smaller things on a screen. Of course this is why Apple caved on the iPad Pro and offers a pen or pencil device for better input. Again, that ask the question. If I need a pen and keyboard, why not just buy a notebook?
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Why Tablets Are Tanking
Posted by: Rob Enderle November 9, 2015 05:00 AMBoy, we really have gone full circle on tablets — and not just once. Back when the Windows tablets first came to market, a whole bunch of us predicted it wouldn’t be long before they replaced all of the notebooks. I don’t think they even made it to 10 percent before the tablet market collapsed, and the pre-existing forms reclaimed their shares. Then the iPad launched, and a whole bunch of new folks claimed that tablets were the future and laptops were dead. Now Apple is reporting a year-over-year decline at 20 percent. What happened?
I've owned numerous Apple products including its pads and mbps. I gave away the pads simply because they were little more than toys by comparison. Anything I could do on an iPad and could accomplish more effectively on an MBP...and countless other tasks.