Are iPads/tablets ultimately a meme or can they make a comeback...

are iPads/tablets ultimately a meme or can they make a comeback? if android hadn't knocked the bottom out of the tablet market with cheap garbage would they still be viable as laptop replacements?

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Tablets suffer from the same problem as netbooks. Turns out nobody wants a shitty computer that can't do anything useful.

I don't like and never liked tablets (although I have one). But i do like the 2 in 1 laptops like the 360 bendable lenovo yoga or the detachable screen on surface pro.

So i don't think tablets will die, but will continue with variations

Standalone tablets and 2 in 1 laptops are a meme. Soon everyone will attach their phone into a tablet or laptop shell to get a bigger screen.

Nope, Surface tablet PCs are killing them off.

They used to be expensive as fuck but you can now get a 2GB RAM/64GB internal + msd slot Surface 3 for less than $400 now:

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There is no need for ipads or Android tablets anymore as a far more superior alternative has come along.

>Soon

it won't happen until Apple does it and makes it catch on

Apple is now irrelevant.

keep telling yourself that

You could already buy chink Windows tablets with better specs and price.

Tablets are great though. I use mine for reading ebooks and watching anime and web browsing. It's like a mini pc, but with Android for better social functionality, like chat bubbles

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You know he's dead right? And that he was replaced by a degenerate homosexual right?

>apple so so relevant people are proposing in Apple Stores still
Nice.

Netbooks were promoted as mini laptops, lesser powered because it's for lightweight uses. But people bought them to use as full powered laptops. Tablets (iPads) were never promoted as replacements for laptops but as complements to other tech, another device to do things with.
If tablets are getting any kind of push as a laptop substitute, it's because the interface and architecture is maturing and they're able to encroach on areas formerly dominated by laptops.

Netbooks and tablets entered the market from different directions.

A comeback? Do you know any family without a tablet?

>degenerates
>people
good one

do you know any family with a tablet that they use for something other than mindless consumption?

>people who don't like the same gender as me are degenerate

Nice meme. Did your grandpa teach you that one?

Go die of aids you worthless sub-human.

Lol get a load of thus permavirgin

fuck off

Someone forgot to put on his happy face this morning

Tablets are great. I use mine for browsing Yotsuba and watching videos all the time.

>samefagging this hard

>browse web
>shitpost
>watch animu

I think tablets are neat

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My Surface 3 (non-pro) makes an awesome modern netbook that I can draw porn on. Able to play Wildstar Online on it as well, very low settings though at around 40FPS.

You just gave yourself away by proving you post from multiple phones you fucking queer.

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It's cause I'm a homosexual so I can afford it, while you're straight, flat, bitch ass can't even get a girlfriend.

>snaps fingers twice in the air
>twirls
>struts away

nice html edit fgt

>windows 10
>2 gb ram

why live?

lol rekt

How desperate are you?

Problem with tablets:
If you use *either* a smartphone or a laptop, then it's useless. For most, a tablet is a glorified bedroom porn machine

That's why you buy a Tablet PC instead.

That's literally the intended use.

nope, try again :v)

Hoo

Yes. My family use it for programming and development. My stepbrother for java, my older brother uses it for C++. I am the retarded one that went with python. The only one who uses it for mindless consumption is my mom who uses an iPad.

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I use my iPad literally everyday in grad school and hardly ever for games or other time wasting shit. Laptops are pretty inconvenient for keeping textbooks on and with all my textbooks on my tablet I can get in my required reading literally everywhere.

Plus you can't use a laptop at the gym. Two mundane activities, that you should be doing, feed into each other. I don't want to get off the elliptical until I've atleast finished the chapter, and I don't want to stop reading until I've hit my daily time on the elliptical.

How the fuck do you do dev work on a small-ish touchscreen? I would rather pick cotton for my 3 meals a day at that point.

>tfw w7 laptop just died
>tfw considering buying a tablet so i don't have to look at porn at my >w10 laptop

Battery life isn't viable for a shitty device. Doesn't matter if you have a 16 core, 5ghz processor and 100gb of ram or whatever bullshit when your phone can't spend more than 2 hours a day doing those things it needs the specs for.

Phones as phones have been shitty for years. Smart Phones aren't any better than the old Nokias in terms of connectivity and quality and the only benefits over them are the fact it's a multimedia device that does every job in one handset as opposed to a dozen better devices.

If you can afford the weight, you are better served getting that laptop, the satnav, the MP4 player, the better quality phone etc but for every day use, smart phones are better if you just want a pocket buddy.

IPads are the superior way to casually browse the internet. Have fun clicking around on a screen if you think you know better.

Why does this matter?

>mindless consumption

*tips fedora*

iPads are great web browsers
Windows Tablets are great for drawfagging, productivity and customizability
Android Tablets are trash in all aspects.

They filled a gap when phones still had small screens.