The iPad Revolution: Apple Boss Announces Tablets Will Partially Substitute For Box PCs and Laptops

In a speech at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Net Meeting in San Francisco, the new Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke on a number of subjects that included the emering tablet market. Cook admits the growing, serious sales of the iPad have eaten into Mac sales numbers, but he isn't worred. “We never want to hold back hold back,” he admitted. Yes, it is not so bad as long we're all buying Apple tablets, right Cook? Of course, he knows his iPad 2 is the most popular tablet on the market.

His theory implies that tablets provide enough horse-power and capacity to finish the vast majority of tasks required by both patrons and companies, so an attractive $499 iPad and the dirt-cheap iTunes App Store are an alluring alternative option to computer boxes, ugly monitors, tons of untidy cables and physically-packaged, over-priced software. It is a no brainer.

That doesn't mean powerful workstations will disappear; some professions and pastimes will always require high-power workstations. Though the vast majority of us have no need for that sort of power, even the ones that need it don't need it all of the time. Finally, it will be time time plop down on the lounger, check on your Facebook feed, build a tower in Minecraft and catch up on your favourite blogs and mags.

You can effortlessly do all of that and more on a tablet, and you do not actually have to seclude yourself in the family’s computer room. Actually the “family computer room” will probably become a thing of the past since a couple iPads are debatably less expensive and definitely more practical than a virus-infected Windows box that everybody has to share.

As for scholars that do not need powerful workstations (to paraphrase, the overwhelming majority of youngsters), it’s only amatter of time before iPads and other tablets catch up to notebooks. The most required ugrade deals with some display sizes and resolutions that make it tough to write and research papers with multiple windows and programs running at the exact same time. But today’s children now grow up with “Apple” and “iPad” as household terms, and there is no reason for these blank slates to gravitate towards standard workstations when they've been swiping, playing and reading on an iPad since day one.

Like my private girl that plays Dora the Explorer games on her iPad, I used to play learning games on my family’s old Windows 95 box. Finally, those boxes got popular. It’s only a matter of time before tablets become the primary form of computing for the masses.

Fausto Mendez is the editor of ReleaseDates.co, a free site and subscription service that updates its readers only about the gadgets and brands they care about.

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