Tablets will not be the future until they can find a better form of input than typing on a tablet.
Apple and most others would rather us have broken and locked down operating systems that sell us apps, it's more profitable for them and increasingly it's what consumers want to.
I am extremely grateful that this has been Apple's path, because I don't want touch screen support in macOS. It would inevitably make it worse for keyboard and mouse usage, as has happened with both Windows and Gnome.
The only devices that really benefit from a touchscreen are phones and tablets. And there for certain types of apps it may even be a better input device than keyboard and mouse. This could be one of those situations: https://www.shapr3d.com/
Sometimes I even do work in photo editing with the pen on the screen.
Afterwards I just switch back into normal mode and use it to create presentations, write code and just do my work.
I think there are different types of people/users with different types of needs. Why not provide for both. Other vendors do this by providing the same model as regular and as convertible version.
Even Microsoft pivoted their operating system to be tablet friendly, at the expense of desktop users, only to find the market is quite small.
- detachable keyboards
- touchscreens
- Android or iOS apps
It's very likely Google's Android tablet ambitions are intended to compete with hybrid devices like iPads and Surfaces.
The third point is being sorted out with Windows 11, although there is seldom anything on Android better than the Windows ecosystem has to offer.