Have tablets jumped the shark?

I use hand-me-down or hand-me-up devices: laptop and phone.

In 2009, we bought a new HP laptop for my wife's daughter as she graduated high school. A year or so later, my stepdaughter purchased a new laptop, so I took the the HP that we bought her to replace my old Gateway laptop that I bought in October 2002. My Gateway started with Windows, but later, I installed Ubuntu Linux.

I still use the 2009 hand-me-up laptop, and it still runs Windows XP. I do all my programming on remote Linux servers. But this year, I would like to replace this HP laptop with a new thinner, smaller laptop that runs Linux.

For several years now, the cell phones that I've used were phones that my wife or stepdaughter formerly used. And for a couple of those years, I used a Tracfone.

For about a year now, I've been using a dumbphone that's an LG flip phone. It's small but bulky. I like using it to test my web apps, which all run fine on this phone after installing the Opera Mini browser last summer (2013).

In August 2011 when HP decided to exit the tablet market, HP unloaded their 16-gig and 32-gig 10-inch tablets in a firesale. I managed to buy a 32-gig

I've held off upgrading from a small but bulky LG dumbphone