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Should I sell my iPad because of a big possibility of the tablet market ignored in the future???

xmichaelp said:
No one is using hybrid devices. Those things do not sell.

The tablet isn't dying, it's just a mature market. They still sell many more iPads than any notebook model. If you think Microsoft sells nearly as many tablets then you're wrong. iPad is still huge.
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I agree. I've been rethinking laptops too.

I think they're a contrived form factor basically. They're a desktop shoved into a portable. They're great, but they will eventually die out. They're just not very versatile. Reading web pages in landscape mode is crappy, and you don't have another choice with a laptop. Using them bundled up on a couch is crappy. The only place they really excel is seated at a table. And what is the point of having it fold? There's just so much wasted space. All the computer parts should be in the screen and the keyboard should have no logic and should be removable for when you don't need it. It just makes way more sense that way.

I believe the software of tablets will reach the point where desktop OSes become unneeded for the vast majority of people. The hardware is already good enough.
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I don't know why, but when I bought my MacBook Pro last year, I had completely forgotten how much I always used to hate laptops and how they would mostly sit in my bag. And that's what happened. I had sold my iPad Air 1 to help pay for the rMBP, and regretted it sorely. I ended up getting an iPad mini and mostly ignoring the rMBP.

Don't get me wrong, the 13" rMBP was the best laptop I ever owned. But it was just overkill for me. I think the iPad Pro was the machine I've been waiting for for a really long time and just didn't fully realize it yet. I'm using it for absolutely everything. I no longer have a Mac at all. My wife has her MacBook Pro from her job, but I have never once needed it for anything at all.
 
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You sell? Yes, yes, 1000 times yes.

All the while, millions of others will simply be enjoying their iPads.
 
And I forgot to mention one more thing that the Windows 2/1 hybrids tablets even the high end ones like the Surface Pro 4, HP Spectre x2, Acer Aspire Switch 11 lots more that they definitely don't have not as great battery life compared to the legendary 10 hour battery life of the iPad.

They only average only about 3/5 hours of screen time on a full charge which makes Windows 2/1 hybrids tablets definitely not ideal for if you are traveling or on the road for long periods of time, So the iPad is definitely 100% superior in that regard as well! :)
 
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I don't know about others, but my Surface Pro 3 lasts around five and a half hours vs. seven hours on my iPad Pro 12.9".

The iPad certainly has great battery life, but my Surface Pro 3 is a contender (even though it's not quite a match). It's difficult to make a hard compairison because I use them for different things, but in the "for wha to use it for" test, the IPP 12.9 doesn't outclass the SP3 by as much of a margin as one might think.
 
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Night Spring said:
My 12.9 iPad Pro lasts nearly 10 hours. Don't have a Surface, so can't comment on that.
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I got 11.5 hours out of my last charge. I have brightness slightly below the half way mark, so I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it.

I've actually been thinking about the battery aspect a lot now that I'm using this thing as my laptop too. Even though its battery life is insane (iPads always have been), I'm still having to charge it every night or two. The cool thing though is that it can last through a work day with me, and then be able to just be my tablet for a couple of hours that night too. It's literally pulling double duty and still at about 20% at the end of the day. I could never rely on a laptop or my iPhone for that kind of longevity. At the same time, back when I had non-Pro iPads, I didn't use them as laptops at all, and only had to charge them up every 4 or 5 days.
 
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Yes, sell all your electronic devices because their value should be based on what the market dictates 1 year down the road.
 
Night Spring said:
A laptop is basically a shrunk down desktop.
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And tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2, Pixel C and the iPads and Windows hybrids tablets like the Surface Pro 4 are basically a shrunk down and ULTRA PORTABLE laptop!!
 
bensisko said:
I don't know about others, but my Surface Pro 3 lasts around five and a half hours vs. seven hours on my iPad Pro 12.9".

The iPad certainly has great battery life, but my Surface Pro 3 is a contender (even though it's not quite a match). It's difficult to make a hard compairison because I use them for different things, but in the "for wha to use it for" test, the IPP 12.9 doesn't outclass the SP3 by as much of a margin as one might think.
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Not even remotely typical. I have a SP3 as well and it gets about 5 hours of battery life, but the even bigger issue is that it, like all Windows devices, does not sleep reliably in an ultra-low power state, so it will often drain 10-20% of the battery just sitting in your bag. There are times it will drain the entire battery. You cannot count on a SP3 to have all day battery life, let alone act as an appliance where you can leave it for several days and know without a shadow of a doubt that it will have plenty of battery when you next pick it up to use it. As a result you end up carrying the power brick with you everywhere. If your Surface has 20% battery left, you'll often be lucky to get 30 minutes out of it. My iPad Pro will still give me a solid 2-3 hours of use from that level.
 
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zhenya said:
Not even remotely typical. I have a SP3 as well and it gets about 5 hours of battery life, but the even bigger issue is that it, like all Windows devices, does not sleep reliably in an ultra-low power state, so it will often drain 10-20% of the battery just sitting in your bag. There are times it will drain the entire battery. You cannot count on a SP3 to have all day battery life, let alone act as an appliance where you can leave it for several days and know without a shadow of a doubt that it will have plenty of battery when you next pick it up to use it. As a result you end up carrying the power brick with you everywhere. If your Surface has 20% battery left, you'll often be lucky to get 30 minutes out of it. My iPad Pro will still give me a solid 2-3 hours of use from that level.
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I do experience a power drain but it's nowhere near your levels. If I put it in my bag at 100% in the morning, leave it in the bag all day, and use it again at night, the battery drain might be 5% at worst, usually less.

I agree though, not an all day battery.
 
bensisko said:
I do experience a power drain but it's nowhere near your levels. If I put it in my bag at 100% in the morning, leave it in the bag all day, and use it again at night, the battery drain might be 5% at worst, usually less.

I agree though, not an all day battery.
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That's the best-case scenario, and if all is well, that's what happens. The problem is that with any Windows laptop, Surfaces most certainly included, they will often drain significantly more than that, and there is no consistency to their behavior, so they are hard to count on. At /r/Surface on Reddit, there are generally a couple of sleep threads active on the front page, every day, and it has been this way for years.
 
I'll count myself lucky!

My biggest issue was that the display kept coming unglued and popping up along the top. I'm on my third right now and it looks good thus far.
 
The tablet market isn't going to instantly tank next year, or even 5 years from now. If it ever does it's because computing power is so incredible and technology are moving beyond tablets.
 
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ShaunAFC3 said:
The last week I am thinking of selling my iPad Air 2 which I just bought only about 2/3 months ago and I definitely enjoy using my iPad all the time and the iPad Air 2 is my main computer and replaced/ditched my laptop and I think iPad is the best tablet out there ahead of Microsoft with there Surface pro series tablets and high end Android tablets from Samsung and Google. :) :)

I know this is very stupid and very silly reason to sell my iPad but due to reports recently that the tablet market(including the iPad) in general is dying(because of the sales is down) and the interest and usage of using tablets like the iPad is going down because people are using there phablets and going back to there laptops or using a Windows 2/1 hybrid instead of a tablet like the iPad and a Android tablet so that's means one thing that in the future there is a big possibility of the tablet market ignored in the future.

So I am thinking of selling my iPad Air 2 because of that and get a Windows 2/1 hybrid instead but I don't really want use a Windows 2/1 hybrid tablet because they are bigger and more heavy and the OS Windows definitely is not touch friendly, there is not many apps that are touch friendly and required a mouse to navigate properly and Windows 2/1 hybrid tablets make not so good as tablets compared to the iPad and Android tablets.

With all that being said I definitely don't want the tablet market to be ignored in the future just like the netbook market couple years ago and I just love tablets(I don't like laptops) especially with a touch friendly OS like IOS on the iPad!! :)

And the thought of the tablet market maybe being ignored in the future makes me sad!! :( :(


So iPad users, Should I sell my iPad because of a big possibility of the tablet market ignored in the future??? And do you think the tablet market will be ignored/dead in the future because of phablets and Windows 2/1 hybrids?? And what is the future of tablets??
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If you use and enjoy your iPad Air 2 then why in heaven's name get rid of it? I have the same one and bought it last winter knowing that new ones were coming. I have things I do with my iPhone, Tablet and Mac. I think from a stock analyst point of view, the tablet market is not so good, but I think that is because tablets, especially the iPad, have a longer replacement cycle than a phone does. I am tempted by the new iPad Pro but seriously don't have a use case for me for that one. The Air 2 performs well as does my previous Air.

If anything, I ditched my laptop. When I upgraded my Macbook Pro I opted for the Retina 5K iMac instead. Because of my iPad, I don't really need a laptop anymore, anything portable I would do, is available on my iPad. If it wasn't for the fact that I tinker with software development, I could totally ditch my iMac as well. Enjoy your iPad Air 2, and don't worry what others say.
 
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TrueBlou said:
Yeah I get your point and I'm not disagreeing with you, hell your preaching to the choir. But while your journey towards this mobile computing dream might have started with the iPod touch. Mine started 25 years ago with my Psion series 3, that was the first time I had a truly portable device that felt like a proper pocketable computing platform which allowed me to write letters, work on spreadsheets and more when I was on the bus.

I was watching videos and connecting to the Internet for news articles with mobile devices decades ago so this little tech journey is hardly new to me and that's mainly why I consider many things to be simple tasks, if you could do it 20 years or more ago, I'd sure as heck hope you could do it a lot better now. I always knew that one day there would be very little distinction between a pocketable/portable device and my computer at home. We're not quite there yet, but we're not far off.
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Following the theme....

My mobile computing dreams began with the HP 41-C, which is closer to 35 years ago (the last time I did any real coding, too.) It could display alpha prompts for end user input - what a concept! Later, I had several Palms (no Newton, but my ex did) before arriving at iOS.

As others have noted, a lot of this has to do with how you define "computing." If "PC" or "Mac" defines computer to you, then it's easy to come to the conclusion that iOS cannot replace a "computer." To me, computing is not defined by a single OS or paradigm - it's about performing useful tasks in ways superior to previous methods, or tasks that were impractical to perform before the power of a computer could be applied to them.

Some people need to bring their office with them. Others just prefer it that way. Others can do just fine with iOS while away from their desks. Some don't need (or want) the desk at all. It's not about "pro" or "amateur," it's about the task at hand, the available tools, the willingness to learn/change/adapt....

As to the original post? Just another take on Mac "future-proofing" posts. Who knows what the computing landscape will look like in 3-5 years, or what the OP's needs will be at that time? Live for today! About a year before you plan to replace your current device, start looking at rumors/reports of what the next year will bring - if dramatic change seems to be on the horizon, that's plenty of time to plan and adapt.

Meantime, if Apple is still selling iPod Nanos and Shuffles, why should anyone be worried about iPad disappearing over the next 3-5 years? My first-generation iPad still works well - the last iOS update for that was released May 7, 2012 - four years ago, nearly to the day. There are still folks out there running PowerPC-based Macs! Don't worry about "cutting edge" - as long as your knife is still sharp enough to cut it (and can be sharpened, if necessary), you can keep using it.
 
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