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Originally Posted by HansTWN
I would like to see the current generations of tablets as more of a "interim solution" because the hardware just isn't ready. And that, at some time in the not too distant future, tablets will be full fledged computers (while retaining all the advantages of tablets such as size, weight, battery life, and simplicity of operation), not just the media consumption machines they are right now. Call it the "post tablet" or "tablet PC" world when the categories merge again.
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The thing that worries me about MS and Apple is their apparently literal-minded view of convergence -- that your most powerful computer, the one you use for the most sophisticated tasks, should run on the roughly same OS as your smartphone and tablet, which has meant, in some ways, that the experience will be as blunted as the one on your smartphone.
Years ago, I'd hoped the first iPad might run on a version of OSX. Now it seems that iOS is going to be infecting Lion and beyond, just as Metro will be worming its way into Windows 8.