Apple Tablet: The Next Step in Computing?


There is an enormous amount of hype about the Apple tablet computer. Is it possible the new apple tablet could change how we live and compute? Could there be more this tablet than hype and rumors? There is more to this new tablet than people think. Looking at the tablet with the perspective, the tablet could be the next step in the evolutionary chain of computing in our society. It could also be a turning point that makes a difference in how we live and work. Since computers have been around we have been trying to make them smaller, faster, lighter, and more useful to the consumer.

The technology industry hit high gear in the 70’s, when personal computers hit the desktops. Then another 20 years down the road when the laptop was introduced, making computers portable to the computing mix. Since the time of computers come around computers gone from the size of rooms to being able to fit inside of a brief case. Today most of us find it hard to get by without computers. They are in our everyday lives from designing websites to looking up direction to a new restaurant, and everything in between.

When smartphones hit the streets, suddenly we were carrying a real computer, able to run a wide range of applications (apps) and expanding different possibilities of communicating with a device not much lager than the average calculator. However the smartphones do have some drawbacks. The smartphone has a small touchscreen, and there isn’t much viewing area. Until we find better methods of typing and viewing characters we are going to have to use larger gadgets than the smartphone but smaller than the laptop.

The soon to be announced apple tablet could be the gadget that fills the void between to small smartphone and to large laptop. The larger size will allow apple to add more hardware which will allow better computing and give users more touchscreen on which to type and view. With these feature it is easy to see that this gadget is the middle of the road device that combines better portability than the laptop and better computing than the smartphones. As the methods of input and output become available and as miniaturization continues on its relentless path, we will see the increase in demand for a device similar in size to the iphone.

The apple tablet is just another step, to world were all our computing needs are on a portable device. Every aspect of our lives will be on some sort of mobile device, from grocery shopping to our business lives. The age of computing has change drastically. We have gone from computers the size of rooms to the size of calculators. Someday desktops and laptops will be a thing of the past. We will look back and think of a desktop as a dinosaur, Like DOS is to OS-X
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