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What's dead is the techie idea that specs are ALL that matters, and that ease of use and ecosystem either doesn't matter , or is peripheral. That way of comparing devices is now deader than fried chicken, and good riddance. What matters is total user experience, which includes ease of use, ecosystem, and specs , which are weighted based on the user. For the techie user, specs reign supreme, whereas for the newbie, ease of use is primary.
Apple has led this way of thinking about device comparison, but all companies and most pundits have pretty much signed on to this way of thinking, because this is how most consumers think.
The tablet wars sealed the doom of the " specs only" approach. The Android and web OS tablets were superior even to the iPad2 in lots of ways specs wise, but were rejected by the consumers but were rejected by the consumers because in terms of total user experience, the iPad2 was so superior.
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