Time being Tablets will not substitute Pc or Imacs.

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?