Tablets have been the biggest success in the high tech market in 2011. We have seen tablets blossoming and most of the computer manufacturers have launched their products. The two great leaders remain Apple with its Ipad, and Samsung with the Galaxy Tablet, empowered with the Android O.S.
I remember having read couple of Loic Lemeur's about Steve Jobs considering that computers were "trucks", and that ultimately they may disappear. But I am not really into that state of mind.
Here is a very interesting video I found on Youtube, where Bill Gates give his thoughts on the Ipad.
Obviously, as Bill Gates explain, his opinion is biased. But I must agree also with one of his point: there is a lack of ability to edit things with a tablet.
I personnaly own a tablet (an Ipad 1) and I truly love it. I use it all the time, read news, watching videos. It is a great device, which actually is in a lot of cases easier to use and better than PCs, even laptops.
However, a tablet is not enough, if you have to own only one computer device. Indeed, I find it very hard to write a blog post, or to use a worksheet, or edit a powerpoint presentation. A computer remain by far the easiest way to create or edit something.
So I do agree with Bill Gates when he says there is a lot of room for improvement for tablets.
The fact is that I don't believe we will have a sole "computer device" at our hand. The tablet is the perfect example of what is happening: We did not really need a tablet, but it just expands our connection with Internet.
Most of our "products", or "things" will be connected:
- We will have our smartphone, connected to the Internet, with enough computing power to play, to watch videos and so on.
- Our tablets, to relax and have access to Internet
- Our computers to work, to edit, for "inputs" as Bill Gates say
- Our car, where we get more and more options to access to social media, to GPS information (traffic, restaurant yellow pages, among other things).
- And all the things we are not aware of, but that will eventually come.
Sort of like in the Minority report film, we will have access to computers and Internet every where, and therefore, tablets will have its place, but I believe not the central place, and computer also will have an important place in it.
I believe that what will remain the core, will be the smartphones, as they are always on people, so the easiest way to get in contact with the Internet.
What do you think about it?
