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Originally Posted by rcentros
I still think it's the tablet that will disappear, not the eReader. ...
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A rose by any other name ...
I think the 2017 tablet functionality will cleave in two with one part being absorbed by the ever more powerful and ubiquitous so-called "phone" (telephony has now become only a minor sideline function of the current devices) and the rest merged with today's ereaders. The merged tablet-ereader would likely become a do-all document handling device; reading, editing, annotating, and some creation along with video comsumption. It would be much more than what today is called an "ereader", and much more the feature set of today's "tablets".
While the document reading functions may dominate, I think the "tablet" moniker will win out over "ereader".