Tablets eating laptops eating desktops culture: The food chain in the personal and mobile computing – Part 1

The tablet market is growing and is devouring the next big option available, laptops. The technology market has become a food chain of reverse sorts; laptops are eating on bigger animals in the shapes of desktops and tablets are feeding on laptops. Smartphones, on the other hand, seem to be herbivorous, at least for now.

Recent developments in both personal and mobile computing markets suggested that the once elegantly segregated market is now becoming a haphazard mix of all things convenient.

Both dictionary-thick laptops were replaced by super-slim ultrabooks or were in the process of. But then came slim laptops that were not ultrabooks but slim nonetheless. This cannibalized the ultrabook market, not only with confusion in specifications but also in prices.

Slim notebooks now come with specifications to replace professional laptops and in some cases desktops. The new MacBook Pro is recent example, but more on that later.

In 2010, Apple announced the original iPad that changed the industry. The sector once known as mobile communications sector has now morphed into mobile computing industry and it does not limit itself at tablets now. There are hybrid tablets and ultrabooks cutting curves on the lines of slate devices.

However, until recently tablets were nowhere near the PC market. But then Microsoft happened.

The Windows-maker has protruded into the market with a rigid and strong competitor.  The company unleashed two beasts into the tablet market to hunt the likes of iPads and Transformer Pads.

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