![]() ![]() ![]() Apart from Cupertino, however, only one other company seems equipped enough for the long haul, and they’ve got the world’s largest online marketplace to back them up. Even Apple’s baseline iPad, once tipping the scales at $500, is a more budget-friendly $329. Prices have dropped all-around as manufacturers desperately try to get their tablets (and burgeoning digital ecosystems) into your anxious little hands. Thanks to Chromebooks, even Google seems to have largely abandoned ship, leaving it up to third-party OEMs like Samsung to scrape by using custom versions of Android. ![]() The market seems to have divided into two camps: Apple and Everyone Else. The world may have slightly cooled on the idea of a tablet-only future (thanks, phablets), but there’s still a market for those seeking mobile digital thrills without being tethered to a standard laptop. That total disruption might not have gone as planned, but it seems like our flat, rectangular friends are here to stay, so we might as well enjoy our time together. Remember tablets? Remember how, just a few years ago, we were told the laptop was ‘dead’, and that we’d all be pinch/zooming on plastic slabs for all our computing needs? Yeah, those were the days. ![]()
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