I disagree completely. I find my tablet a killer productivity tool, and only wish it had been available for use in filmmaking years ago. The only reason that I didn't build my production sound recording rig around a tablet computer was that the cost was so high; the only tablets powerful enough to run an operating system and record multi-channel audio were also built and priced for military or industrial use and severely limited by battery capacity. a 6-channel hard-disk based digital recorder cost close to $10,000 a few years ago. That same functionality (and much much more) will be available via tablet+USB audio interface within a year for $1000.
People said the exact same thing when the mouse and GUI came along - it was eye-candy, a substitute designed to distract the credulous from the fact that we had hit the limits of productivity and that it was all downhill from here on. They said the same thing about microcomputers and minicomputers as substitute for mainframe terminals.
People said the exact same thing when the mouse and GUI came along - it was eye-candy, a substitute designed to distract the credulous from the fact that we had hit the limits of productivity and that it was all downhill from here on. They said the same thing about microcomputers and minicomputers as substitute for mainframe terminals.