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I think it is a very valid point. A tablet makes sense for the medical application but they have been around for years on the consumer side and nobody really used them. Why not? Surfing hacker news is cool on a tablet in my bed, but writing this comment while I'm in my bed would be impossible with a tablet. Same thing about most of the other browsing, text input on a table it not very practical. (I used to own an HP tablet pc) The form factor is also quite big, it's not something you're going to put in your jeans. And when you have to carry it around in a backpack, most of the people will probably just take their notebook because when it comes to serious work, emailing and actually creating content a keyboard is a lot faster. The tablet can't be much smaller than the macbook air and even if it is, I think a lot of people would go for the MBA. For consuming media, a tablet is great, but epaper is even better and we haven't heard any rumours about epaper being used. Now for music you already have an iPod, and just for watching movies and reading blogs in color, I think is not enough to convince people to buy another device. Remember a tablet would completely change the way people behave, the iPod replaced the walkman, the iPhone replaced a cell phone. A tablet is neither replacing an iphone nor a notebook, so at a 1000$ price tag, I think the value it brings is not enough. |