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Stale tablet market looking up again

Upcoming devices such as Samsung's Galaxy Tab S4 and Microsoft's Surface Go are injecting excitement in a market that has not seen much flair in recent years

Samsung's Galaxy Tab S4.
Samsung's Galaxy Tab S4.
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The tablet will usher in a post-PC era. This was the prediction made by late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates years ago.

It is an era when consumers use the tablet as their primary computing device instead of the PC.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on August 08, 2018, with the headline Stale tablet market looking up again. Subscribe