On the World
Review / Meditation with Tablets
NEVATHIR
December 24, 2017
Tablets today held a unique place among gadgets. People's preference for large mobile phones or small laptops maintained delicate balance against the need for tablets. The future of tablet markets is perplexing, to say the least, even for giant gadget brands. Somehow experts expected and sensed very speical quality from tablets. Yet for years tablets occupied unsatisfactory market status because they lacked a sufficient reason for existence.
Mobile phones beat tablets for timeliness. Browsing maps, receiving emails, joining social networks, while tablets undoubtedly offered better experience, mobile phones are significantly handier to use. Laptops beat tablets for productivity. There is no replacement for Visual Studio on a laptop for iPads, and probably never will be for the future of our species.
Tablets are obviously superior for reading papers and books, but not sufficiently above the ancient Kindle to justify a distinct product category. A different kind of Kindle doesn't sound like great accomplishments.
Other tablet successes like games and online department stores, though certainly provide clear clues for the existence of good tablet applications, are too mundane to fullfil the special expectation experts held for years. Future market disappointment seems unavoidable.
We at Glacier Studio, however, are convinced that the special quality tablets possess is genuine and efforts to uncover it are the missing link for it to manifest ubiquitously.
Stylus is a branch we consider hopeful. Today we speculate about another area for exploration. Despite commonplace transient enthusiasm for the Star Wars genre, technologies descended from it do survive market examination, like virtual reality headsets with handsets. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic featured mindwiped Revan who undertakes Jedi training by practicing meditation with datapads, which suggests that if tablets don't work, perhaps serious minds do.
There are endless possibilities for great minds to work with tablets, but meditation is practicable for everyone, even without intellectual sophistication.
Great scientists and musicians often anticipate masterpieces completely with their own minds without help from other instruments. A tablet much better than pencil and paper to store and to write down mind works is likely workable.
Well-designed apps to provide guidance for meditation and exploration are desirable to elevate effectiveness for common people, that after all, not all people, even great scientists and musicians, constantly exhibit overwhelming mind power.
Styluses and gestures may prove critical for meditation apps to be attractive and to differentiate against rivals. Local workability and Internet support are primary features to emphasize.
For gadget brands, it's easy to build meditation apps, and thus we conclude with a spark of hope for the future of mankind and tablets working together.