And the winners are...

The tablet war is over. Apple and Amazon won. Too early to tell, you say? Not when the others are abandoning the battlefield already:

Traditional PC makers are said to not be paying much attention to the tablet market controlled by Apple and now Amazon, and are instead pinning their hopes on thin-and-light Ultrabooks to improve gross margins.

Of course, PC makers haven’t been able to compete with Apple’s MacBook air on materials, or on price without a $100 subsidy from chipmaker Intel.