By 2018, tablets will be obsolete, says legacy smartphone company CEO

Blackberry CEO Thorsten Heins made waves by opining on the limited future of one of tech’s strongest growing device categories: tablets.

“In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore,” Heins said in an interview yesterday at the Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles. “Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model.”