Comment Re:Whats the alternative? (Score 1) 863
I think this whole tablet euphoria ends much like netbooks - a niche that garners a lot of attention and ramp up, peaks and then declines to its real, niche level.
What the heck, I'll bite. iPad-style tablets are probably the most important advance in general-purpose computing hardware since IBM launched their PC. I don't mean that as hyperbole, either. iOS and Android have made modestly powerful computers easy to understand and use by regular people. They are the present and future of consumer computing. Desktop and laptop PCs are and have always been a professional product, overcomplicated and poorly suited to the "workflow" of regular life, and they are rightfully being abandoned by everyone that doesn't actually need what they offer: A ridiculously powerful workstation with a bunch of overlapping windows, a disc burner, huge local hard drives and/or the latest graphics hardware.
If anything, I think the "home desktop computer" is going to quickly become a weird niche product.