Gadgetory

and 2010 tablets were set to change the world 2017 do they even matter anymore you might actually wonder that as a scene that headline recently did upon the announcement of new changes to Apple's vaunted iPad line they almost made the announcement in a thief in the night soared away there was no big event no gala no incredible showy presentation just a press release that rolled out a price cut and a little bit of streamlining of the models they offer so what's going on here iPads were supposed to be a hundred and fifty million unit per year business by now instead Apple's only sold about three hundred and fifty million in seven years tablets seem to have suffered from smartphones getting bigger and frankly big enough the big phones or phablets have grown three hundred and fifty percent in the US market what do you hand your kid when they're antsy and bored a tablet bigger than their head or just your largest phone also all smartphones have a built-in 4G connection to the Internet where that still remains relatively rare on tablets and most of us don't relish the idea of adding another device to our wireless plan cheap tablets have taken over the market we don't seem to care so much about having a certain brand of tablet or at least having the latest model whereas we are pretty aware and up-to-date on having more or less the latest smartphone but don't write off tablets there are still a billion unique users around the globe that have and use one which is somewhat less than half the number of those of us who use a smartphone and the Microsoft effect is being projected the surface line is expected to go from under 9 percent of the global market in 2015 to almost 20 percent in 2020 almost single-handedly stabilizing the tablet market worldwide and give tablets credit for stoking our appetites that led to things like big phones or phablets convertibles laptop tablet hybrids all things we might not even known enough to ask for before 2010 know what's next at C net coms last big thing i'm brian cool