Are Tablets dying?

[exciteseo]

I found this table on Tablets popularity among different ages in USA. Tablet market share started to drop and there are no possibilities of regaining previous popularity. I believe it happens because 5.5 inch smartphones became very common, and Tablet PC's are popular only among children and aged people. What do you think about it?

 

[DesignForge]

there are no possibilities of regaining previous popularity

The table shows the opposite. There will be 22 million more tablet users in 2019 in the US than it is today.

Or am I missing something?

 

[Paul Kelly ICHYB]

The table does not indicate market share, just usage. Usage is also different to sales. Yo also need to look at the source group size

 

[Scott-Copywriter]

I think you're misinterpreting the percentage user share.

As more older demographics use tablets, their percentage will rise whilst the percentages of other demographics will fall. They have to, otherwise the percentages won't add up to the total 100% of all the age groups.

Tablet usage is still projected to rise amongst almost all demographics. It's just that the faster rise in older audiences is causing those demographics to take a slightly larger slice of the pie. They aren't market share percentages.

 

[exciteseo]

The table shows the opposite. There will be 22 million more tablet users in 2019 in the US than it is today.

Or am I missing something?

I only made my assumptions according to percentage of tablet user share. It says (if I understand correctly) that user share grows only among very young and old generations, and among others it remains the same, if not dropping.

 

[exciteseo]

The table does not indicate market share, just usage. Usage is also different to sales. Yo also need to look at the source group size

Here is a graph iphone/ipad share.

 

[nightmare99]

People generally do not upgrade their tablets as frequently as their phones. Do those stats include 2 in 1's ?

 

[toastking]

I am 30 and so sit in between your original age groups and am pretty tech savvy. However I've replaced my phone 3 times since I bought my iPad mini and I use my iPad for at least a couple of hours a day whereas I rarely use my phone.

However I think I am the exception to the common rule here as most of my friends and all bar two of my wife's friends are glued to their phones and in particular Facebook and whatsapp almost constantly.

I wouldn't be surprised if tablets dropped out of use and those phablet things (in between phone and tablet size) became the norm in place of either phone or tablet use.

 

[ryedale]

I hardly ever use my phone (6) for anything other than calls and emails.. Love my tablet (air 2) for reading, web and films and certainly wouldn't choose the phone over it

 

[Ian J]

I hardly ever use my phone (6) for anything other than calls and emails.. Love my tablet (air 2) for reading, web and films and certainly wouldn't choose the phone over it

Me too although I don't often bother lugging a camera around on holiday any more. I bought my tablet purely for watching films on planes to pass the time but now find it useful at home for Googling something rather than going upstairs to use the PC.

I'm in the "old boy" category according to my family

 

[exciteseo]

I hardly ever use my phone (6) for anything other than calls and emails.. Love my tablet (air 2) for reading, web and films and certainly wouldn't choose the phone over it

I have ipad mini 1 gen, and I used it NEVER since I bought Nexus6. This phone serves me as everything. Maybe because of screen size. When I had 4.7 phone, it was only for calls/emails.

 

[LowPrices.uk]

The big smartphones will probably reduce tablet usage.

 

[exciteseo]

The big smartphones will probably reduce tablet usage.

I hope that smartphone enlarging will stop by the point of 6 inches. Because more is unusable as a phone, it won't fit in the pocket.

 

[John Penko]

All android and IOS tablets are simply toys and portable web-browser. In 90% of cases it can not be used for serious stuff.
Thay will not die because again they are toys, and as a toy they do its job really good )))

 

[Ian J]

All android and IOS tablets are simply toys and portable web-browser. In 90% of cases it can not be used for serious stuff.
Thay will not die because again they are toys, and as a toy they do its job really good )))

That's a bit of a silly statement to make. I use my tablet primarily for watching films on aircraft to while away the time. Does that make it a toy? If so are my televisions screens and projector toys too as that's what they are used for.

You claim that tablets cannot be used for serious stuff yet watching films, reading and writing emails, Skyping friends and family overseas et al is all serious stuff

 

[Bradley Holmes]

I think tablets will remain popular until they figure out how to make your mobile phone screen fold out and double in size.

They say Samsung is close to releasing a phone with a fold out display.

I occasionally pick up my wife´s tablet to read the news or watch a bit of you tube but to type even a quick email I´d prefer to turn on my PC.

 

[John Penko]

That's a bit of a silly statement to make. I use my tablet primarily for watching films on aircraft to while away the time. Does that make it a toy? If so are my televisions screens and projector toys too as that's what they are used for.

You claim that tablets cannot be used for serious stuff yet watching films, reading and writing emails, Skyping friends and family overseas et al is all serious stuff

That is why I said in 90% of the cases ))) So you are one of the 10% )
check on smartinsights, they have a great detailed analysis of tablet usage.

 

[Easy Loans Company]

My tablet is vital to pretty much everything I do. I can't remember the last time I used a pen and paper.

I have a chinese tablet which is dual boot. It has Android Kit Kat, and Windows 8.1 on it. I use Windows for work, Android for play. I don't know what I would do without it so tablets are certainly not dying for me!

 

[fisicx]

That is why I said in 90% of the cases ))) So you are one of the 10% )
check on smartinsights, they have a great detailed analysis of tablet usage.

Their stats are misleading as they don't measure what the devices are being used for and how long. During the day I use all three. Some days one of the devices may get used more than the others and for different features. None of them are toys, they can all be used as business tools.

 

[rodion]

Well it's certainly not dying from my daughter
But seriously there is a huge opportunity for tablets in small business sector, like using it for POS and etc.
So I think it will grow

 

[Dan_HiHosting]

A lot of tech commentators etc. do state there was a trend of tablets taking market share and use from PCs, and that now tablet popularity is decreasing, and PCs and mobiles are being used more again.

Laptops are getting ever slimmer, with better battery life, and lighter weight. They're more powerful, give you a full OS, and are often the same price. So tablets can be a less attractive proposition.

I have an iPad air but rarely use it to be honest. Phablets work well as an all in one device.

I'd like to get a Kindle Voyage to read books, and the screen of the iPad is obviously larger, but I generally read them either in physical form or on my Note 3. Comfortably read many large novels on my Note 3.

Phablets and tablets have eaten into the e-reader market. Until there's major progress (such as high definition colour e-ink displays at an affordable price) then that'll continue I think.
Same with tablets. If you look a the output from Samsung etc. its decreased.

There's less of a reason to upgrade, and not a lot can be done at the moment to give a good reason to upgrade (screens are already great, they're powerful enough, and slim and lighweight).

That progress has now passed on to Windows tablets - e.g. Surface Pro, and the new Macbook.

Fanless PC/MAC tablets and laptops.

Tablets were a hot property a few years back but less so now.

There's more scope for growth (reason to upgrade) for phablets and laptops at the moment I think.

I'd like to get a new note pro tablet, but Samsung seem to have forgotten about it. Oh well. And to be honest something like a Surface Pro would be a lot more useful for me.

 

[garyk]

I don't think so but its like anything as the market matures the upgrade cycle gets longer. I read something this morning that sales of Apple Ipads in the last 12 months have been lacklustre. Well of course they are you cannot carry on that sales growth year on year as everyone who wanted one has got one!

Personally I don't do any 'work' on mine as I find virtual keyboards a waste of time, for consuming content; news/kindle/films/youtube they are brilliant.

 

[rmmfree]

I think that most people who owns a tablet does not need to replace it for another one. For example I have a 4 years old one which works fine for reading books and comics or to play chess from time to time, so I don't really need to buy a newer one. These are great products and not replaceable by a smartphone, in my opinion.

 

[Ian J]

I'd like to get a new note pro tablet, but Samsung seem to have forgotten about it. Oh well. And to be honest something like a Surface Pro would be a lot more useful for me.

I fancied a Surface Pro ever since sitting next to someone on a plane who was watching films on one but the main thing that puts me off is having to use Windows 10

I'm not a techie and already have Windows 7 on PC and laptop plus Android on phone and tablet and I don't really want to have to get to grips with yet another operating system

 

[Easy Loans Company]

I fancied a Surface Pro ever since sitting next to someone on a plane who was watching films on one but the main thing that puts me off is having to use Windows 10

I'm not a techie and already have Windows 7 on PC and laptop plus Android on phone and tablet and I don't really want to have to get to grips with yet another operating system

I've not used Windows 10 on a tablet, but Windows 8 on mine is great. It's like having a full version of Windows but it's really optimised for touch use. I have had it a few months now and it works great. It's not hard to get to grips with.

 

[Easy Loans Company]

I've only used KitKat version of Android on mine, and I really do not have words of praise for it.

Slow, bugging all the time... Really frustrating.

Wonder how it would work on Win 10...

I have a dual boot tablet so it has Windows 8 and Android Kit Kat on it and I know what you are talking about with Android.

I tend to use Android for "play time". Outside of work for certain apps, games and web browsing. It's useless for any work tasks really. That's where the Windows side really comes in to it's own. It's great for work tasks (Excel, Word, etc.)

 

[talksalot81]

I have a windows tablet and it is the last one I will buy. It isn't awful but it just isn't great for doing things that I would normally do on a laptop. I don't mean anything complex, just browsing etc. It may well be the browsers or the sites but I find myself ditching the tablet far too often and going to use the laptop instead, because it isn't playing ball.

 

[Easy Loans Company]

What version of Windows do you have on it?

 

[Ben Astell]

I work for a company called HeadTech Solutions, we are an IT company that specialise in providing IT support to the recruitment industry and Coventry schools, We rarely provide tablets to our clients, Its all about Ipads!!!

 

[fisicx]

An iPad is a tablet.

 

[Ben Astell]

An iPad is a tablet.

Yes in reality the iPad is a tablet but Apple has avoided calling the iPad a tablet, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t one; In fact, because of this, many people see the iPad as something else !

 

[Ashley_Price]

So, I was in London a couple of weekends ago. On the underground a family (mostly female) were talking about whether size matters. The conversation was going back and forth between three generations from grandmother to children. At one point the grandmother said she preferred bigger ones because they're easier to hold. One of the children said that all her friends were complaining about having to have bigger ones, they wanted smaller ones.

They were talking about size of tablets of course. (But it did raise an eyebrow until someone mentioned an iPad.)

 

[talksalot81]

@talksalot81 , maybe the configuration of your tablet is not good so you're having problems with it?

It is win10, which is miles better than 8 was. It just feels like it isn't optimised. For instance, with touch browsing, I would want a nice and easy to hit button for things like 'back' but we get the same button as for using with a mouse - which often means hitting the wrong thing. Outlooks similarly problematic - it is the same as the desktop version but there isn't enough space so it is hard to navigate. I thought that maybe it wasnt running in tablet mode or was running full programs instead of app mode or the likes but it seems to be as it is supposed and I cant easily find anything that would improve it. Whether there is some way to make it better or not, it just isn't good enough that it is either like this natively or would need someone to dig to get it set up properly.

 

[James Woodyatt]

I myself have only recently brought a tablet, but its just not the same as actually having a laptop.

 

[japancool]

I find my Samsung Galaxy Tab useful as a mobile terminal at conventions to take credit card payments on. However, I use an 11" Windows laptop to run the till application that I knocked up together in MS Access.

I quite fancy a Surface 3 or maybe an Asus Transformer though.

 

[Ian J]

I quite fancy a Surface 3 or maybe an Asus Transformer though.

There might be a brand new IPad Pro coming onto the market soon as I've just won one in a competition and have no use for it

 

[japancool]

There might be a brand new IPad Pro coming onto the market soon as I've just won one in a competition and have no use for it

Not interested in Apple, sorry.