Back in 2011, I was having an all-consuming love affair with tablets. Now — three years and 225 million tablets later — I’m starting to see how misplaced that passion was.
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Roman Temkin's curator insight,
March 16, 2016 1:07 PM
My friend Gilles Raymond, News Republic's founder, makes 5 unpolitical correct predictions on the future of tech - particularly tech devices. As the leader of one of the largest news app for mobile, tablets and smartwatches and someone who's been in the mobile device industry for ages, his views are always sharp and I like that he challenges the status quo.
As as far as tablets are concerned, I believe there's a usage niche that will keep them a small but alive market. Not as a computer replacement but as a gaming / entertainment device for the home (as Gilles observed: nobody seems to carry them around to the office anymore).
Filomena Gomes's curator insight,
July 17, 2014 11:43 PM
Excellent! J'adore les astuces et les conseils et les exemples concrets.
Ken Morrison's curator insight,
April 13, 2014 7:52 AM
Facebook is currently my biggest non-Apple app. If they are going to take away a major function, I sure hope that they dramatically decreases the apps file size. |
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It's interesting to see some signs of disappointment for tablets after so much hype for the category. But the metaphor is valid: after the passionate love affair, we might be settling for a marriage of reason as the category matures.
I see yet a number of reasons for tablets to still exist in spite of increasing pressure from phablets and bigger and bigger phones. Among others:
- games: the iPad is now a significant gaming platform.
- curated computing: the idea that less is more and that we sometimes need a simpler computer.
- after work, chill-out computing: a device that doesn't tell us "go back to work" by offering us a different context.
Interestingly, portability has nothing to do with any of the above.