Tablet timeline: A retrospective

You left off the full size convertable and slate tablets from the likes of Fujitsu, Toshiba, Panasonic and Motion Computing. These had a huge market for the last 8 years. Yes most of these were in vertical markets but they had significant numbers within these markets.

You included the "tablet" displays from 2001 A Space Odyssey, even though they were nothing more than background and played no role in the story, yet you left out the "datapads" from Star Trek The Next Generation! They were the first thing I thought of when I first saw the iPad demonstrated.

I still have mine and it still works. I just have not put it in its cradle in a long time and the battery is shot. I used it in my business for over 4 years as my personal computer and it was great. I think I paid over a thousand dollars for it and the dock.

You can't forget about Motion Computing tablet products. They're heavily used in the medical fields and work very well in my opinion.

Perhaps I'm slightly biased since a member of my family does make the ReadyDock which charges and has an option of disinfecting the tables in medical areas. Cool stuff actually: http://www.readydock.net/