Has the consumer tech industry found ways to make tablets into useful devices yet?
Yes, the non-gay tech industry anyway.
The i7 surface pro 4 has pretty much replaced laptop. Despite it's small form factor it can cool the processor to 3.2 GHz running prime95.
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I'm still using my Galaxy Tab S2 with touchjizz bloat. It's quite nice and still runs very smoothly after 1 year+ of use with no maintenance. I recently lent it to my grandma who uses it for Facebook, recipes, and other old people shit. She loves it. The screen is gorgeous.
Tablets aren't a necessity as far as tech goes, but it's a handy little device to have lying around the house, imo.
I use my HP Touchpad from 2011 ($99 firesale!!) to read PDFs and play Touchmaster games.