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The iPad is pretty popular. It can do pretty much everything a laptop can do. Plus, it’s lighter and easier to use. If you’ve every played with touch technology (which, in this day an age, you most definitely have), you probably agree that there is something very intuitive about it.
Touching a screen is easier than typing on an iPad. And, that’s something that Apple believes, too. As early as June 2010, Steve Jobs suggested that people won’t need PCs so much, and that tablets will takeover. Typewriters are no longer being produced, will PCs soon fall into the same category? Steve Jobs may think so, but not everyone does.
It’s a debate in the tech community. Mac users seem to believe the iPad will take over in the near future. After all, the main thing an iPad lacks is a keyboard. A keyboard can be easily connected to a tablet, though, using bluetooth or a USB cable.
Of course, tablets don’t have a disc drive, either. But, as you know, discs are quickly becoming extinct. Information is mostly virtual. So what would prevent tablets from replacing a laptop? Obviously, there’s the technical issues: power, memory, and so on, but none of that is too far away. Tablets are pretty well-equipped these days.
So, what do you think? Do you think tablets will take over? There’s obviously a bit of a tablet trend, right now, though it remains to be seen whether or not it will replace the laptop.
