We tech fans are a spoiled bunch, and I am just as guilty as the rest.

Last month, I sold a barely three-month-old iPad mini 2 because the only activity I really used it for was to play FIFA. I wanted an iPhone 6, so I justified selling the iPad to help fund it. I now have my iPhone 6, and while I love it, I really wish I had gotten an iPhone 6 Plus instead because it’s bigger! (although I may still be waiting for it). However, I don’t really miss the iPad, so last week’s “sort of new” iPad line did little for me. And I feel bad about that, because it’s still an incredible piece of technology. But I don’t really care, and I think most of you feel the same.

It’s not just the iPad specifically, but tablets in general. I’ll give it to Samsung; it has been in the large phone game so long that that’s how I associate with its brand. It makes tablets still (I think?), but it’s hard to tell when it is shoving giant phones in your face seemingly every month. For once Samsung’s strategy of throwing wacky phone products against the proverbial wall to see if it sticks is to its advantage. That’s because when the tablet finally does complete its evolution into Phablet, Samsung won’t miss a beat. However, I have a feeling that three years from now we’re still going to see Apple lifting a very dusty curtain on iPads that have amazing guts and killer looks, but nobody will want them, because phablets happened.

It’s ironic that the demise of tablets will be because they’re too big and impractical, in an age where bigger is seen as better, at least with phones. When we think a phone can’t get any bigger, here comes the Nexus 6, a 6-inch giant that common sense should dismiss as a parody, but instead I can’t help wanting one in my pocket cohabitating with my iPhone. Yeah, I’m a spoiled little fanboy, and in six months I’ll be looking at my iPhone 6 and maybe Nexus 6 like a t-shirt with an immovable stain, waiting to ditch it for the next great one.

But what I probably won’t be yearning for ever again is an iPad, or any tablet. And I think most of you will feel the same. Maybe not now, but pretty darn soon. There is still a silver lining though for the iPad. It’s the most popular brand among kids, and even NFL quarterback Jay Cutler knows of nothing else but the iPad. So as long as kids keep asking their parents for the iPad, and the NFL and Microsoft spend millions reminding us those are not iPads on the sidelines, Apple probably won’t retire them. But when the kids ask mommy to pass them the phablet, it’s game over.