Again - the past doesn't equal the future. No matter how you try an force it. You can't predict this any more than you can predict how much snow fall I'm going to have in my back yard by 5pm. Oh you can try. But ultimately - it's just conjecture.
It not the past, but its still happening in the present. We still have full Windows 7 tablets when the Surface Pro came out. Rehash of the same thing. Only Microsoft came out with their own version.