Tech Bytes: Pads to Phones- The Reovlution of Touch

As anyone who’s looked at recent technological releases can tell you, the iPhone really started a new trend. You have every new phone coming out with touch compatibility, making a new line of smart phones, and you have the iPad, which is like 4 iTouch’s  taped together to form a giant board of an object, that requires you to get a carrying case just to use, but to go farther, you’ll seen entire phenomenon start from this! How many "tablets" have you seen come onto the market over these months? How long will it be until we see this odd fad end?

Here's my sense of logic: when the iTouch came out, I thought it was cool, it gave a good bit of power to Apple, and brought them into the gaming market, bringing such innovations as Angry Birds. But what got me was the iPad, which at release had only about 16 gigs, and no Wi-Fi, for over 500 bucks. I'm not made out of gold, and I cant go mining for it either (how I wish the world was more like Minecraft on occasions) but I find that to be steep, especially since you can get a cute little laptop for the same price, it'll have built in Wi-Fi, and you'll even get a large enough hard drive to store something larger than the Lord of the Rings Trilogy on. As my picture shows on the right, I find this to be Apple's logic, make product bigger, make billions in profit, and you know what,m it worked. And other companies have done it too, I can go out and look at Toshiba, Motorola, and more, trying to copy the magic of Apple, at an almost reasonable price tag.

Maybe I am being a little bit jealous, I will admit, I am not a big Apple fan, anybody who won't allow Flash on a $350 iTouch is cruel, but the bigger point is this, why are people flocking to tablets? Touch is the only thing I can think of, since laptops offer what? More power, less price, more options, and if you really want, you can still get your sleek white Apple edition for $1000 too! I think its more of just a way of people thinking it gives them of a leg up, it looks cool, and I will admit, it has some perks, but what can you do on it that a laptop can't do better? I can type on a laptop, I can get Wi-Fi (Built in as standard on almost every model nowadays) and I can even play some really cool games on laptops for the same price of an iPad, so, when it comes down to it, if you like bandwagons, go out and get a tablet. Touch does add a cool flare to an old, traditional method, but think it out, iOS doesn't even have Flash, but Android does. Just somethnig for you, and your wallet, to think about.