Time being Tablets will not substitute Pc or Imacs.
Although
there was a big trend in tablets
consumption, everybody knows that usually what goes up fast plummet. Tablet’s
sales have cooled. After two years with annual growth of over 50% in the first
quarter of the year they did just 11%. The macro is not the worst-case
scenario, but some companies are already experiencing already declining sales.
Apple
is down 9.3% on the cake to twelve months, the equivalent of 1.3 million iPads
that have been in stores, while Samsung, its great competitor, just get placed
more than 100,000 Galaxy Tab in 2013 , growing a meager 1.6%. These
figures indicate that the market is becoming saturated. What happens to
tablets?
The main reason is that Tablets are not worth
to work . First of all it should unmounts a myth that of the tablets
eventually replace the PC. It's a nonsensical idea, sponsored by the
manufacturers themselves, who never take shape. No, at least while the
tablets remain a device for consuming content-and not for creating it. Keyboard
is needed to write a long text keyboard is needed, and to work with Excel is
much better with a mouse, Smartphones are also more suitable to take a pictures,
to play and edit videos you need more power ... and besides, neither iOS nor
Android are neither appropriate file management systems.
Ergo,
if tablets are not suitable to work, they are not
indispensable. Consequently the PC, especially the all in one and spurred
on by the end of the XP support, they are picking up again. It is modest
growth, or a cushioned fall, which in no way worth it to retrieve the pre-2010
levels, but that shows that has not been left out of the market.
Bites are
been given to tablets’ share above and below. User uses the tablet mainly for Internet
browsing and watching videos anywhere. In 2010, when the first iPad went
on sale, laptops were much thicker and mobiles phones were small and
unintelligent. Four years later the situation has changed: now we have 13
millimeters thick powerful notebooks and up to seven inch screen smartphones.
The
threat comes from above not only more portable screen and lighter weight, but
have emerged a sort of hybrid machines, known as two-in-one, who cannibalized his offer. We talked
about lines such as Microsoft Surface or the Asus Transformer Book, able to
function as a laptop or tablet as desired by the user.
The
bites given below are more dangerous. Phablets
have arrived to Stay and have features that many tablets lack, like the
ability to call or 3G / 4G connectivity. In the best case, the display of
a tablet is between three and five greater than an phablet, a
difference which makes exclusive those devices. So, a few keepers of an Galaxy
Note, for example, have also a tablet.
How
many will be replaced? Its still unclear how many users of obsolete
tablets will opt to buy new tablets? There have not enough time since 2010
to see if a strong substitution trend occurs, as happened in the past with PCs
and smartphones, or users will pass page with this
device.
There
are three reasons for concern. The first, the small intensive use of such
devices, people use these gadgets an
average of two hours a day, usually in the hours between the end of the working
day until dinner time. Thus, wear down is much less pronounced than PCs and smartphones. Same happen with its battery, which with more
capacity undergoes less charge cycles and as a consequence have a longer
service life. Finally, the fact that the requirements for surfing the net
are so low that users hardly will take computing capability as an
important matter for replacing your
tablet.
WHAT FUTURE hae the TABLETS?
Some
analysts are betting for super vitaminated models able to compete in power
and features with conventional PCs. We are talking about a 64-bit system
with 2 or 3 GB ROM and 64 GB or 128 GB internal memories and a physical
keyboard. All this, embedded in an ARM structure due to the energy needs. In
this line is drawn the Google Chrome books as portable devices that meet the
requirements, failing in only one basic issue: the operating system.
Anyway,
it is unlikely that current tablets survive. Tablets needs to be
integrated into a productivity suitable system. Makes the leap from desire to
necessity. Or not, and perhaps device integration is a story and we will live
with a device dedicated to a short number of specific tasks. What do you
think?