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Do you think there will still be Android tablets/Ipads in 5 years time?
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Billy tech,
He is simply saying you don't bring anything to the table. Do you have tablets? Which ones? How do they work?
You ask questions people respond and you don't. The other problem is all your questions are the same. Will we have tablets in 3 years, will we have tablets in five years. And they are not presented well.
In fact the way I read the opening post of this question, is that you somehow feared iOS and android tablets would disappear to be displaced by windows tablets and you hoped not because you really really like using tablets. The answer is yes. There will be android tablets and iPads in five years (at least used ones). The first iPad came out in 2010. Five years you see. And you can still buy them, don't know why you would, but you can.
He is simply saying you don't bring anything to the table. Do you have tablets? Which ones? How do they work?
You ask questions people respond and you don't. The other problem is all your questions are the same. Will we have tablets in 3 years, will we have tablets in five years. And they are not presented well.
In fact the way I read the opening post of this question, is that you somehow feared iOS and android tablets would disappear to be displaced by windows tablets and you hoped not because you really really like using tablets. The answer is yes. There will be android tablets and iPads in five years (at least used ones). The first iPad came out in 2010. Five years you see. And you can still buy them, don't know why you would, but you can.
spinedoc77
macrumors G4
Easier to manage settings in a tablet settings. Check out the preview, I think you will like it, that is easier than trying to explain it.
rowspaxe
macrumors 68020
Not much happened in the last five years--in terms of laptops or tablets. The ipad is thinner and lighter, and has a higher screen resolution.
But if you go back 5 more years the introduction of smart phones and mobile computing is revolutionary.
rowspaxe
macrumors 68020
Windows 10 seems so incremental in almost all respects. Four years later MS is finally going to restore a bloated semblance of the start menu to the enterprise user base. Its windows 8.1.1 at best. But I like Windows 8 on the desktop. If you use the task bar its quite elegant
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I could understand why people disliked it--but I never understood how people could not understand it.
Judging by the glacial progress iPads have made, I think they'll be exactly the same as they are now, except thinner and lighter. I'm sure they'll still just be large phones that can't make calls, last 8-10 hours on a charge, have no multitasking, have no speaker layout that makes any sense...
Maybe Apple will manage to properly implement external keyboard support by then, though that's probably a pipe-dream.
Windows 10 looks like a step back from 8.1 even, and I didn't even think 8.1 was any good. Android also looks just as bad as in 2012 (on tablets, much different story on phones), so I wouldn't hold my breath there either.
I don't know what the future will hold, but I'm past certain that it will revolve around the laptop / netbook form factor.
Then again, I'm an idiot. When the iPhone was first shown, I was certain it wouldn't catch on, and when the iPad was show, even more so.
Maybe Apple will manage to properly implement external keyboard support by then, though that's probably a pipe-dream.
Windows 10 looks like a step back from 8.1 even, and I didn't even think 8.1 was any good. Android also looks just as bad as in 2012 (on tablets, much different story on phones), so I wouldn't hold my breath there either.
I don't know what the future will hold, but I'm past certain that it will revolve around the laptop / netbook form factor.
Then again, I'm an idiot. When the iPhone was first shown, I was certain it wouldn't catch on, and when the iPad was show, even more so.
Michael Goff
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Completely agree!
Android has definitely improved on Tablets especially the latest version 5.0 Lollipop! 🙂
With Microsoft in trouble and nobody even knows if they will even be in business in five years, regardless of that, Android and Apple tablets should be still going strong by 2020. The only way i could see it play out any different is is smartphones completely take over. Once apple and google make their OS'es capabable of more productivity, and if docking stations finally arrive that will turn your smartphone into a desktop workstation, that could be what causes the death of tablets.