What happened to tablets? There was a huge hype behind them, but ended up being the lame duck of mobile

What happened to tablets? There was a huge hype behind them, but ended up being the lame duck of mobile.

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Well a smartphone or a laptop are simply better options.

they started making bigger phones and calling them phablets, for real, now they don't say that stupid word, they just call them bigger phones, so bigger phones replaced them

There's not much of a point for android tablets since Android phones are big enough anyway. iPads are still popular especially amongst parents who want to buy their kids an i device but don't want to get them an iPhone, however as iPhones have been getting bigger, it's hard to justify for the average consumer.

They didn't go away. They just put 4G in them and called them smartphones. The only thing that has gone away is smartphones that you can actually use with one hand.

>phones are too small to comfortably watch videos on
>what if we made them really big
>now they don't fit in pockets
>what if we made phones bigger, but less big
welcome to 2019

Only the tab S 2/3 desu

I have a huwawei mediapad m5 and it's very nice

They're annoying to handle.

big phones happened
tablets are for babies and old people now

The only tablet I've enjoyed using is an iPad Mini. The OS is shit but the display is decent and the aspect ratio is nice for reading PDFs and emails, which is all that I really use it for.

Phone tech rapidly leaped past tablets.

Replaced by Phablets and there wasn't enough effort put behind them to replace laptops.

Remember when tablets where supposed to kill desktop PCs and consoles?

$400 tablets were getting pushed out for no good reason. Basically killing their own market, iPads only made it much worse.
$40 Amazon fire could be modified to add play store, be ad-free and perform just like a $400 tablet. Basically they got greedy and couldnt fully take out the PCs and gaming consoles.

A lot of tablets are crap and apps stop working without a wifi connection i.e. constantly need an update. My macbook will do for now.

Tablets are still useful as an intermediary between laptops and phones, i.e. for travel. They're a lot more enjoyable to consume various forms of media on, from books, to movies, to games. If tablets had gone more in the direction of something like the Surface Pro or iPad Pro (and I think they probably will), they would probably be much more popular. As it stands, you typically give up too much convenience for not enough gain apart from a larger screen and possibly better hardware. Quite frankly, mobile devices as a whole have been really poorly thought out, and there's a ton of missed opportunity in the market.

I was recently thinking again about getting a mi pad 2 that runs windows, then I remembered why I never did, only 2gb ram. Turns out no tablet smaller than 10 inches can get a license for windows if it has more. Such bullshit, they can but it costs a lot more.

Now I'm just waiting for a 4 inch wide bezelless phablet

>Turns out no tablet smaller than 10 inches can get a license for windows if it has more
Why?

>>now they don't fit in pockets
make bigger pockets

They were only ever popular with boomers, and now ever boomer who has one isn't buying another

Gonna disagree here. An ultralight laptop isn't much thicker or heavier than a large tablet, while providing considerably more utility. Why buy an iPad when the Macbook Air exists? (Does it still exist? I don't follow iFruit shit).

Well what reasonable replacement is there for the 2013 nexus 7? There's nothing that's cheaper and with better specs. Do 7 inch tablets even exist anymore?

With regards to my first point, I was talking about tablets that are more in the 7-9 inch range, i.e. just a step above "phablets". They're just the right size for reading or watching content without feeling strained, but they're smaller than just about every laptop out there save for netbooks, which are all but dead anyway. It's a niche, sure, but I do genuinely find it more convenient for things like air travel.

With regards to my second point, the failing point of tablets (and mobile devices in general, but primarily tablets) is, pretty much like you said, their lack of utility (or, more specifically, their productivity) outside of media consumption, web browsing, and basic utilities/apps. I think the direction the Surface Pro takes, which is effectively an ultra-slim laptop with a touch screen and detachable physical keyboard (probably the most important element), and possessing hardware/an operating system that allows it to be a genuinely productive device, is probably (more or less) the appropriate technical direction for tablets.

I've got a Nexus 9 wi-fi 32GB model and i just flashed SlimROM 7.1.2 on it, works so much fucking better than the Oreo ROMs for it

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The Nexus 9 is almost as old and doesn't have a 7 inch screen.

Good for chatting with grandparents because simple to use.
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They're 91 and 89.

There are already 7 inch phones the Lenovo tab v7, and Huawei mate 20x, mi Max 3. It's just a matter of time before they push the envelope a bit more reaching maximum pocketable size

Normies get iPads.
Jow Forums get huawei or switch.

I have one in my bathroom for masturbation session.

has a superior chipset, better screen, still has stereo speakers and is a better tablet with SlimROM, ElementalX kernel, NFS Injector, and DMS Doze
all for about $100 refurbed off ebay

They are shit and the "cool new gadget" factor wore out.

iPad basically ended up beating them all out.

Microsoft ruined Windows because of them
Then they turned out to just be a meme and no one uses them any more

But it still only has 2gb of ram, doesn't come with a 7 inch screen and it's old.

Most phones are either big enough or strong enough to do everything people used to rely on their tablet to do.

Perfection.

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People realized that tablets are just smart phones with larger screens and no data, and that the larger screen isn't actually worth it

>old
who cares how old it is when its still putting up 110k on Antutu v7? what i posted all help save battery life, and the only other tab that outperforms it and is within a reasonable price is the Mi Pad 4

I want one for video editing. When you factor in the screen quality it's a bargain for 4k production over getting a desktop.

You're evading your 500 years of bans iJeet. Why haven't you offed yourself yet? You'd be doing your grandma a favor.

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What the fuck is Antutu v7 and why would anyone want to buy a 5 year old tablet if they already have an old one? said no one was buying another and that's true. There's no direct upgrade for the nexus 7. Only shit with huge awkward screens and the same amount of ram. How is it that in 2019 there's no 7 inch tablet with more memory and space than a nexus 7 while still being under $200?