Tablets Ipad and Apple

Apple is doing it again. Just before people grasped the whole tablet idea Apple went ahead and threw in the Ipad. What this has done is that people think all tablets are Ipads and the same thing happened with touch screen phones where the iPhone ruled for quite some time. The interesting thing is that apple isn’t really an inventor, they just bounce on technologies that other companies are afraid to invest in. For instance funny enough touch screen phones may have started with Nokia and also if you consider tablets Nokia already had a number with the Nokia N770, Nokia N800 and Nokia N810. Anyway that’s argument for another day. Let me just try and define what a tablet really is.
Well, tablets are in between computers and phones and that’s it. But as it turns out the gap between computers and phones is really wide and complex. It is really hard to find the perfect balance between the two. Either it will be too near the phone world or it will turn out to be something else and nowhere near both the computer and phone. Yah, I know that last statement didn’t make sense but that’s really what a tablet is, it doesn’t make sense.
Initially companies used mobile operating systems such as Android 2.1 and Android 2.2 on tablets, while Apple used its iOS and what resulted were tablets which were extremely close to phones. People refer to ipad as big IPhone. So others tried to put windows 7 on tablets but that complicated things and because of that windows tablets are few if not none existent.
The good news is that recently Google launched Android 3.0 which is aimed at tablets and I must say it’s doing really well considering companies like Motorola, Samsung, Asus and others are literally scrambling for it and so far we have more than 5 honeycomb( android 3.0) tablets. HP is also doing well with WebOS and the same goes for Blackberry who recently launched their Blackberry Playbook.
In a nutshell a tablet should do the basic things you do on your computer like media consumption, office work, browsing the web and even playing games. For those who love games just get yourself an Ipad since it’s the best in gaming and according to some survey people use tablets primarily for gaming and that is why Apple is winning this war. A tablet should also be very mobile just like a phone and usability is also another key factor hence tablets are between 7 to 10 inches in screen size.
There is still no perfect tablet but Android 3.0 tablets, the Ipad 2, Blackberry Playbook and the HP Touchpad are close to that. Price-wise tablets are still expensive and it would be wise to give them about 1 year for the competition to intensify.