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Old 01-28-2016, 07:14 PM   #1
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Tablet Shipments Drop 2015

Though not surprising, I kind of hate to see it happen. Tablets can be awesome devices.
http://betanews.com/2016/01/28/table...-drop-in-2015/
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Though not surprising, I kind of hate to see it happen. Tablets can be awesome devices.
http://betanews.com/2016/01/28/table...-drop-in-2015/
Commodities tend to reach a saturation point.
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Old 01-28-2016, 08:24 PM   #3
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Yeah, I mean how many tablets does one person need. . I still have my 2012 8.9 Fire HD, I have a Nexus 2013 and a Fire6. They all still work. Heck, I still have the first Fire that came out what was it 2011? The brick? It still works too, although I don't use it as the resolution is not great even for my bad eyes.
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Old 01-28-2016, 09:19 PM   #4
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Old 01-28-2016, 09:32 PM   #5
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Commodities tend to reach a saturation point.
You may be right. There have not been much in the way of new features on tablets in the past few years, and the older tabs tend to hold up well.
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Old 01-28-2016, 09:34 PM   #6
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Yeah, I mean how many tablets does one person need. . I still have my 2012 8.9 Fire HD, I have a Nexus 2013 and a Fire6. They all still work. Heck, I still have the first Fire that came out what was it 2011? The brick? It still works too, although I don't use it as the resolution is not great even for my bad eyes.
I gave away four tablets last year. Good point about how many does a person really need. I still have three tabs.
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Old 01-29-2016, 07:44 AM   #7
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You may be right. There have not been much in the way of new features on tablets in the past few years, and the older tabs tend to hold up well.
The things have no moving parts and are really little more than an LCD screen with a rechargeable battery. LCD screens are know to last ten years and more and modern batteries lose capacity very slowly.

Given that the majority of consumers use them for Internet access and content playback there really is no need for new features. In that they are more like TVs than PCs. And TVs tend to stay in use for a looonnngggg time.

None of this means the tablet business is dead, just that replacement sales aren't going to be a big part of the business and, with the growing popularity of convertibles and Tablet PCs, new adopters of media-centric tablets are more likely to be looking for low cost devices.

And guess who bet their tablet business on the low end?

Anybody looking for bargains in premium android tablets is going to have a lot of choices in a month or so...
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Old 01-29-2016, 09:36 AM   #8
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None of this means the tablet business is dead, just that replacement sales aren't going to be a big part of the business and, with the growing popularity of convertibles and Tablet PCs, new adopters of media-centric tablets are more likely to be looking for low cost devices.

And guess who bet their tablet business on the low end?

Anybody looking for bargains in premium android tablets is going to have a lot of choices in a month or so...
Amazon really threw down the gauntlet with their $50 "good enough" tablet.
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Old 01-29-2016, 09:51 AM   #9
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they are more like TVs than PCs. And TVs tend to stay in use for a looonnngggg time.
That's a nice comparison, and probably very apt too.
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Old 01-29-2016, 11:26 AM   #10
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I am afraid it is all my fault: I didn't buy a tablet in 2015. Nor am I likely to this year. I still have every tablet I've ever bought, and they all still work. I think I'm going to let Amazon give me $5 for my Fire 1st gen, though.
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Old 01-29-2016, 12:29 PM   #12
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I'm trying to think of any scenario that would lead me to buy a new tablet. Even if I break one, I still have two left. And thinking lately that one tablet is more than sufficient at this point, no scenario under which I can imagine buying another for years to come.
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I am afraid it is all my fault: I didn't buy a tablet in 2015. Nor am I likely to this year. I still have every tablet I've ever bought, and they all still work. I think I'm going to let Amazon give me $5 for my Fire 1st gen, though.
For only five bucks, it might be worth gambling that Best Buy has another promotion where any tablet (except Nook tablets) qualifies for a $50 BB GC.

I've traded in six defunct tablets with two separate promotions, including two 1st gen Fires, two HP Touchpads, a Pandigital Novel and I can't even remember what the sixth one was.
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I am afraid it is all my fault: I didn't buy a tablet in 2015. Nor am I likely to this year. I still have every tablet I've ever bought, and they all still work. I think I'm going to let Amazon give me $5 for my Fire 1st gen, though.
I think for $5 I'd roll the dice and try putting CyanogenMod on the tablet to make it more useful, give it a newer OS.
I have a nook HD that I just put CM13 (unofficial) and I find without any bloatware that 8 gigs on board storage is plenty of room, and it is amazing how nice Marshmallow runs on the device. I've gone from using the tablet infrequently to using it more than my other tabs.
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