What defines the "tech trend of the year"? Is it the product that is used more, the one that sells more, gives more profit, revenue, or the one that is going to be developed more intensely, is more different from what exists, or what is going to receive more marketing money, or what is going to receive more media attention?

That guy seems a lot concerned about working hard with his mobile 10'' tablet, and whether people are willing to carry a separate keyboard or not. Someone should tell him that being moving around is not good to work either, the best thing to do some serious hard work is to sit at your desktop in your office, and not using some notebook, netbook or whatever in some improvised place. And with a separate keyboard and monitor.

Do we agree that netbooks were the trend in 2008/2009? Even tough many of its customers were dissatisfied at the end of the day/year?...

Tablets can become the natural step after the netbook craze because by lacking a small notebook-like crappy keyboard it prevents people from analyzing it and criticize this aspect of the machine.

Being so small and looking much different from a notebook, people just can't look at it the same way, and are more willing to accept a strange looking interface and the smaller processing power. It's easier to make the users understand that they must treat it as a particular device, something different from their desktop computers.

Although that's exactly what that article's author seems to think, that just complete computers are interesting... I doubt it that he listens to music or read blogs, RSS news or electronic books, or play games...

Is he expecting that the tech trend of the year will be something like buying a quad core desktop with widescreen lcd monitor and an Internet connection? wasn't this the tech trend in 1998?