Tablets Are Up For Grabs

Posted in: General, Author: yobitech (July 1, 2013)

Although the iPad had set the standards for tablets, the tablet market is still ripe for the picking. In my opinion, we are fortunate enough to be a part of the most exciting time in history of mankind, well, at least for us guys. As many may think, Apple’s “golden days” appears to be behind them, but they are still a very innovative and trend setting company. I have to say with the loss of Steve Jobs, it just hasn’t been the same. As we look behind us, we see the tablet path riddled with failures. A lot of people may not know this, but Apple had a failure back in the 80’s with the Newton, then the Palm Pilot and the HP iPaq. To some degree these failures had setup the iPad for tremendous success. Like a volleyball game, Apple was prime to “spike” the ball. It took the failures of the past to learn and design the iPad.

The iPad is not failing or doomed but simply losing its freshness. With IOS7 coming, it doesn’t seem to have the same “BANG” as other past announcements. Although we don’t know how it is going to work yet, it appears to be more of the same. Meanwhile, there are some new and exciting tablets out there now innovating where Apple used to. For example, Dell has a convertible XPS12 that is a laptop with full Windows 8 (Home or Pro) running on an i5 or an i7 processor equipped with a flip 12” screen to be a full 10hr tablet! There is also the Dell XPS18 tablet that doubles as a desktop mimicking the Apple iMac while giving the consumer the ability use it as a large tablet. A full 18” tablet! Samsung is also leading the way with the cell phone hybrid tablet “The Note” series device with a 5” screen. A true man’s man tablet with dual core and handwriting capabilities. There is a “Wow” factor here, like the same ‘heart-thumping” excitement of unboxing of the previous Apple products.

These are just some of the new innovations that is taking place in the tablet evolution. I am glad to see that although Apple had opened up a can of whoop@$$ a few years back, but what goes around comes around. It’s about time that others learned from Apple’s mistake and is now returning the favor.