Well obviously the Android tablet price band has taken the traditional windows 7 starter netbook to its grave, but what I really mean is, are tablets just another computing fad? New data is saying yes. The average price seems to be getting less and sales in unit volumes are not going up. This really says two things – the android tablet will phase out into something else, the obvious seems to be some type of quasi merger with a smart phone, well then what will happen to the ipad?

The ipad undoubtedly is a great device and it has taken entry level notebook computers to its grave also (purists always believe this is where entry level notebook computers belonged in the first place), however is it a necessary device in its own right? if you find yourself saying it’s good to have but I can live without it, then its path will be the same as the lower priced android tablet. It just may take longer.

What is our obsession with new devices? Well I think it’s the constant drive for human’s to try to improve their quality of life, we believe in this ever more connected world that we can achieve better living with more technological device interaction.

Before getting carried away with the whole “well life was better when we sat around the dinner table without our faces buried in our phones” (which I somewhat agree) argument, it looks like the tablet is going to be eaten up by the phone and the phone seems to have eaten up the digital camera, and smart phones combined with tablets are eating up notebook computers.

I think more and more people are realising the creative and creational restraints imposed by ipads and other tablets and they are not going to completely abandon the traditional notebook PC. I think the complexity of windows has pushed people away to IOS, Android and even Chrome, but it has also zombiefied the computing experience. What about when we want to do what we want to do and create?

Once we realise, I need to do that little more, we fire the old PC up again, and I think mankind’s constant desire to stretch boundaries will push us back to localised open source power computing.

The cloud and it’s endless device connectivity and data sharing is here to stay and it’s great, but creational computing is still the frontier for growth and that still requires localised PC power.