Let me start out by admitting that, in my 40 years as a tech journalist, I’ve been wrong at least a few times. For example, in 2010 I wrote that “The iPad is underwhelming” in my CBS News column. Even though the iPad in particular and tablets in general still haven’t overtaken PCs, as Steve Jobs famously predicted in 2010, they do pretty well.
One of the reasons I was underwhelmed at the time was because laptops kept getting lighter and phones kept on getting bigger so it wasn’t clear to me how useful tablets would be. For the most part, I still believe that, which is why I’m not