Okay Tablets, you have my attention..
“Tablets are no longer just metal slabs for Netflix and e-reading.”
Since the introduction to tablets to the mass market, tablets never really had a “purpose”. When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad on stage people wondered what they would use iPad for. He went on to exclaim that iPad will bridge the gap between the iPhone and the Mac. That couldn’t be truer today. Even if you don’t carry iPhone in your pocket, iPad in your bag, or a Mac on your desk, the industry has paid attention to the tablet space.
I find it interesting where the industry has taken the tablet. At first it was just a media consumption device. I considered a tablet digital entertainment device. A device that which you swipe through digital pages in a digital book. A device that immerses you into a film, be it Netflix or YouTube. A device that….you get the point.
I believe that is why consumers arent upgrading to a newer tablet as often as people do with smartphones. There hasnt been a cemented vision or ease of use on how to use a tablet. That’s all changing with what’s out today.
The shift has been made to productivity and it’s exciting. I know at my full-time job, we are migrating to the Microsoft Surface Pro for the majority of our employees. On the Microsoft Surfacs users can write documents, create spreedsheets, update databases, shop online, and even sinoky browse the web basically everything you can do on a laptop. As Steve Jobs introduced iPad, tablets were to bridge the gap between a smartphone and laptop. How did we finally get here though? Software had a lot to do with it. In the past, the software on tablets were too convoluted and restricting. And software is what you see and touch when the a device (a tablet in this case) turns on.
Software has finally caught up to the hardware of tablets. Just take a look at how iPad operates running the upcoming software update iOS 11. The same can be said for Windows 10 and Chrome OS. I believe in tablets so much now, I’ve recently purchased the Samsung Chromebook Plus. Though it has an attached keyboard, touch capabilities and additions of Android apps added to Chrome OS, it gives me the best of both worlds. In fact, I wrote this on the Chromebook Plus.
So now that software has caught up to the slab of glass and the occasional attached keyboard or 2-in-1 functionality, do you see yourself using a tablet as your primary computer? Could a tablet replace your next laptop purchase? What would keep you from purchasing a tablet?
