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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Tablets fill the computational and memory requirements of much more advanced applications. Vendors can produce tablets both with and without external expansion. In other words, both markets can be served.
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Canonical has already delivered full blown Ubuntu (albeit Unity
) environment for Android, and although I am not following Apple as close as I should, I somehow have no doubt that Apple ecosystem is strong enough to match that need.
As for the Microsoft and Windows, the strength in x86 world does not automatically translate to strength on other platforms (and it was tried before). The major problem for upcoming Windows ARM-based tablet is that one can not run existing x86 apps on it.
The price of a powerful productivity app (say, Photoshop?) is not negligible. Those who already made the investment on PC, might easily decide to keep their boxes around for a while, and convert completely to "tablet-only" environment when the time comes for next software upgrade.
I doubt that transition to tablets will happen overnight. Cheap PC's, abundance of computing resources in existence, and availability of the existing software, all points to a gradual, rather than rapid transition to tablets as a principal personal computing platform.