Tablets vs Palm Pilots

I have been seeing the price of Tablets going down.  My question is this, Is there any real difference between a tablet of today and a Palm Pilot Tungsten of yesteryear?

Tablet of today;
Microsoft Office, e-mail, bluetooth connection, wifi. 4GB memory. Cloud Storage.

Palm Pilot Tungsten of yesteryear;
Documents to Go which matched Microsoft Office, e-mail, Bluetooth, wifi. 4 GB memory with expansion card to take it as large as an SD card will allow.

So far as I see no difference.
Modern systems seem to want to add a telephone to the system.  While that is nice it does not seem necessary to share your conversation with the world.  Also Blackberry already sued Palm Inc into non existence over the phone plus system. They could do so again.  After all they have had both since they started making Blackberry Phone system.

Does anyone really think cloud storage is secure?  What cloud storage is is a bunch of computers all working on the same problem at the same time.  If any of those connected computers are compromised..........POOF!!! there goes all your personal/professional data. Is this secure?  I think not.
In response to the secure data problem Palm and Secure Data systems developed the SD card.  Pull the card and no one has access to your data.  Seems good enough for me.

The only thing tablets have going for them is that they have nice long runtimes on their batteries.  Palm Pilots lasted around 6 hours on a single charge versus a tablets 8 hours.  At this point the advantage goes to tablets.

As far as Palm Pilots went they were highly portable, you could clip them to your belt, you could securely transfer files, they connected straight to your P.C., you carried your calendar with you and could up date it as necessary without the need for personal assistant to do it for you,  and you could connect to the Internet via Bluetooth on your phone if you needed to find something on the web.  Some palms even had wifi connectivity built in but that was a fairly new thing at the time.  I would say the advantage is the Palm Pilot in this case.

What does a modern tablet have? Touch Screen, Palm Pilots had them a long time ago, Wifi, Not all connections are secure, Bluetooth, Palm Pilots helped to create that tech, Microsoft Office, We currently have Open Office, Documents to Go, Wordperfect Suite, all of which fit on a palm, Cloud Storage, Palms need a P.C. to connect to the Cloud, More storage? Not likely as most have around 4 GB that students will use.  Games?  Pilot had games for purchase just that the screen was small.  E-Reader?  Who do you think came up with the idea? Not Microsoft or Amazon, or any of the other companies.  Palm Pilot had their e-reading back in the 1980's.  Fast processor.  A T-5 Palm Pilot could handle games for crying out loud.  I would say a tie at the processor speed.

Basically all I can see a tablet has is a larger screen than a palm pilot and it is not as mobile as a palm pilot.  Here is the score so far Palm Pilot 6 points, Tablet 3 points, tie 2 points.

So you say you can type on a tablet, Well I can type on a palm pilot using either on screen keyboard or a folding keyboard, I have Infrared link, Bluetooth Link, P.C. link, all with the capability of syncing the Palm Pilot or printing directly from the Palm Pilot.  You can also print using a tablet so we are back to being tied.  Tablets do carry Windows, easy to hack, and infect, as it's base operating system.  Palm Pilots had their open source system, not easy to hack, no virus written for it, as a base operating system.  Blackberry has their own version of the Palm OS and it too is open source.  When they use windows they need to add an antivirus program just to keep from infection.

So in reality all anyone is really doing is increasing the size of a basic palm pilot taking out the calendar and adding Microsoft Operating system.  As far as I can see that is all.  Which all this means is you are using a Palm Pilot, stripped down, as a Microsoft clone.  Why are you reinventing the wheel?  Check with HP for current model Palm Pilots and you would be surprised as to where they are showing up.  For example Retail, Hospitals, Engineering firms, even on most campuses.  What does a tablet have that I cannot do on a palm pilot?
Final tally:
Palm Pilot 7
Tablet 4
Tie 3

Any questions?