BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins is making waves because he is not a fan of tablets. In fact, he told Bloomberg in an interview yesterday, that there will be no reason to have a tablet in 5 years. He seems to think the smartphone will be the only computer you will ever need. We shall see.
Perhaps he is right, but just keep in mind this comes from the company who last introduced a tablet that did not include an email client.
“In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore,” Heins said in an interview yesterday at the Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles. “Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model.”
Perhaps he is right, but just keep in mind this comes from the company who last introduced a tablet that did not include an email client.