Rather than envision what people would really want to do with a tablet and then design the hardware for that, Microsoft instead force-fit Windows XP onto it. Windows XP was a great desktop operating system, but it was bloated overkill for a tablet.
Microsoft also decided that people would want to do the exact same things with a Tablet PC as they would with a desktop or a laptop. Here's what Gates said at the announcement:. Despite that price tag, it couldn't really replace a desktop or laptop.
It only found use in niche markets. There were other problems as well. As TabTimes notes , the heavy use of a stylus was also a mistake. Steve Jobs recognized that the tablet should be a consumer device and not a replacement for a desktop or laptop PC. He saw that it would require a different operating system, one designed for tablets, not traditional computers.
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Why did Apple change course? By Malcolm Owen 2 hours ago. By Andrew O'Hara 21 hours ago. How to make your Apple Watch battery last longer 21 hours ago. Apps sell hardware. Did you see the cool ones used in Caprica? I want that. The long fail?? So what do you think is mounted in all those police cars that pull you over? Or those nurses carrying that thing around? Jump in a taxi lately? Fly on commercial airlines? On private jets? On single engine? Those touch screens in there providing flight plate approach instructions are not exactly displaying screensavers.
I work in a company that installs this stuff worldwide and TabPCs have been used for everything from in-car entertainment and trucking industry all the way to commercial avionics, military combat vehicles and in-plane guided missile systems over Iraq.
Are you headed for the Olympics? Tabs are the standard toolkit for the athletes. Defusing a makeshift bomb or landmine? The Tab Cobra is gonna help save your life. Targeting taliban from an F with no digital acquisition system? The Tab will verify and acquire target lock for you in real time. How about an ambulance ride? Its in there to keep you alive. Remember that when you finally get to ride on one. Interesting points made. Think how much technology has evolved over the past 50 years and think what things will be like in the future!
Wow we had tablets dating back to ? Had no idea these machines even existed. Its amazing how much technology has advanced over the years. We need tablets in the medical field, the construction field and so many others. This opens up a whole new market. I found your blog on google and read several of your other posts. Keep up the good work expect reading more from you sometime soon.
It's funny how memory is now in such abundance compared to before. And now that we have a lot of it, we want more because we are used to too much memory it seems with our non-mobile devices. Also, so much for the pen thing right? This is meant to meet the ever changing requirements of the prevailing customers. More information: click here […].
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