BlackBerry CEO Says Tablets Will Be Obsolete in Five Years

[chicofehr]

Tablets make a good GPS though that is the only use I found for mine so far.

 

[InvalidError]

I don't expect it (or anything in that form factor, however powerful) to become a primary computing / gaming device.

One word: dock.

No dock = tablet
Dock to keyboard = ultrabook
Dock to desk = full PC-like connectivity... external or dock-hosted GPU(s), display(s), storage, keyboard, mouse, etc.

Today's tablets already have enough processing power to handle most people's everyday tasks. What they lack is enough RAM for effective multi-tasking (that will be fixed in ~2 years when 4GB becomes standard), input methods for productivity and the software to actually make it happen.

 

[invisibilian]

you can say the exactly same thing about Blackberry. oh wait. it is obsolete now.

 

[sykozis]

Well, I guess he would know, Blackberry was obsolete 5 years ago.

5 years ago, Apple was praying they could get into the enterprise market where Nokia, Palm and RIM had near total control. Now Apple is praying they can keep Android at bay...

 

[Guest]

Well, I guess he would know, Blackberry was obsolete 5 years ago.

What he meant was Blackberry tablets will be gone in 5 years. The reason? Blackberry the company will be gone by then, so he is right in a way.

 

[dirgle]

If he had comented on what his vison for the future was, his comments would hold more credit. As it stands he just sounds like that kid that would throw his bat down, walks away, and say "baseball is stupid" because he keeps getting struck out. I'm not sure this is the person you want running your company

 

[halcyon]

Well, its not like the Playbook is a good tablet. Just because the market wasn't crazy about the Playbook doesn't mean other good tablets will become extinct.

 

[spectrewind]

I have to agree with him...
They made sense as the prop on Star Trek.
I use one at work. An HP Slate2 running 32-bit Windows7. This thing is slow and, when not using an external display, basically unusable for anything beyond signature capture via stylus.
I do NOT see longevity in these devices as laptop/notebook PC replacements.

 

[InvalidError]

I do NOT see longevity in these devices as laptop/notebook PC replacements.

I take my tablet just about everywhere and use it for just about everything except gaming (not counting Bad Piggies and Plague Inc.) and extended typing.

A laptop or even an ultrabook would be much too large and heavy to fit in my pockets so I leave my laptop home unless I actually need it.

 

[HikariWS]

Yep it seems more that netbooks will lose ground to tablets. If we don't need to type, it's very powerful.

 

[sykozis]

Well, its not like the Playbook is a good tablet. Just because the market wasn't crazy about the Playbook doesn't mean other good tablets will become extinct.

The Playbook isn't a bad tablet. It just lacks support from developers. If RIM would get BB10 for Playbook out the door, the number of compatible apps would grow drastically.