2011, Year of the Tablet?

frontwave writes "After the huge success of the iPad, with over 4 million units sold since its introduction, all major hardware vendors of PCs and mobile devices are coming out with new tablets in the next few months, including Apple with a smaller version of the popular product. Analysts estimate the market for tablet devices (over 6" screen size) to be around 25 million units for 2011."

Heh

[anomnomnomymous]

Including Apple with a smaller version of the popular product.

And let me guess; You can also call with this one?

Wrong

[SkankinMonkey]

I thought 2011 was going to be the year of Linux on the desktop?

Re:Wrong

[wjousts]

2012 will be the year of the Linux tablet! You heard it here first!

Re:Heh

[Albanach]

I make phone calls all the time on my iPad via Skype...

Hey, I can't see you. Is your camera turned on?

Does transitivity hold?

[bobdotorg]

If I put Linux on my tablet.

And put my tablet on the desktop.

Would that make 2011 the year of Linux on the desktop?

Larger version of I-Pad

[darth_borehd]

I heard apple is coming out with a larger version of the I-Pad as well. The Max-I-Pad.

Re:Year of the X

[EkriirkE]

2012 is already the year of the Apocalypse. Therefore, 2013 will not be a year of anything.

Re:Doubt it

[syousef]

I'm a programmer and a power user, with, god

I've heard that fanboism could take on almost religious fervour, but that just takes the cake! ;-)

Re:Rumor!

[BarryJacobsen]

I know an awful lot of people, and only two of them own iPads.

I know an awful lot of people and none of them live in China. There can't be that many people in China...

Re:Another overblown bit of hype

[uncanny]

I'm not so sure. The ipad/tablets are just taking the place of netbooks. In my opinion netbooks were just underpowered and cramped laptops. The ipad/tablets remove the cramped aspect of the netbook and slap on a touch based gui. It seems to me that it's just the natural evolution of the netbook, taking it's shortcomings and addressing them. So I suppose if netbooks were a toy to you, then by all means, believe that the ipad is a toy as well.

At least with netbooks you could put whatever you wanted on them (performance permitting) , upgrade them, etc... I might be interested in an iPad if they could run linux.

Sorry, but...

[mcgrew]

2012 is the year of my retirement eligibility, AND the year the Mayan calendar comes to an end.

Re:Does transitivity hold?

[Anonymous Coward]

Linux on the desktop came years ago when I used a Linux guidebook as a mousepad.