Comment Re:Tablets/Phones are complementary, not replaceme (Score 1) 103
There might be a merger in the sense that tablets become the screens for laptops. The laptops a dock of sorts. When detached the tablet runs a tablet OS like iOS. When docked it goes into screen only mode and function as an external GPU and display, the laptop running a desktop oriented OS like macOS. Note some iMac's can be put into display only mode. But this will only happen if there is a cost savings somehow. I'm not sure there is.
I'm fairly certain there isn't. Asus has two current models, one of which is focused on gaming, Dell has one, Lenovo has a couple which happen to be Chromebooks, and of course there's Microsoft's Surface. The Surface Pro series is now a decade old and it's not exactly burning up the sales charts. These things have existed for long enough that it's pretty clear that the design results in an inferior tablet and an even more inferior laptop, not least because of the horrible infestation of tablet user interfaces into what are nominally laptop operating systems. Both Microsoft and GNOME have pushed this idea and anybody who has had to suffer with using them can tell you that convergence does not work.
They have their uses, but detachable laptops are firmly a niche product.