Tablet Future?

The first iPad was released on April 10^th, 2010 and since then it is estimated that more than 84 million iPads have been sold. Many competitors have copied the iPad and released their own tablets; most recently Microsoft released the Surface tablet. Newspapers and Magazines have all had to adapt to these devices to stay in business as most people are flocking to their tablets for the news.

I am myself an avid tablet user and I think the iPad is one of the greatest inventions to come out of the last decade. Every morning that is the first thing I go to for my news of the day and my connection to the outside world without leaving my bed.

Tablets are no longer something that we wish we all had, its something that everyone has or is getting. Tablets are the way of the future in so many ways from saving paper to an earlier way to surf the web. Experts believe that the tablet sales are to reach 119 million sales by the end of 2012. That number is astonishing, just a few years ago (less than a decade even) tablets didn’t even exist now they’re everywhere we look.

Tablets may be cool but are they taking the spot of the traditional newspaper? Many people including myself are using the tablet to read the newspaper instead of picking up a paper newspaper. Newspaper are becoming a thing of the past at this point with more and more companies stopping the daily production of printing a paper and moving to an online version. Personally I like reading an online version but I hate seeing the traditional newspaper die. Newspaper are dying one by one and there isn’t anything to stop it. Times are changing and tablets are the way of the future, you get more content out of your newspaper and magazine than ever before. The future is digital and the paper world is out. 

-Jason Calabretta