by stingraycharles 5 hours ago
You’re forgetting just how convenient a tablet is and how little average people care about the latest and greatest triple-A games.
I've found a tablet convenient in 3 situations: Watching video, reading ebooks or displaying sheet music. (And a single tablet is rarely very good for more than 2 of these at a time.) Otherwise it's either too cumbersome or the I/O is too useless.
Just browsing the web on the couch. It's so much better to have a 10" screen than whatever your phone has.
And even on an iPad you can put a video running in the corner while you browse HN or Lobste.rs.