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Consider the humble clipboard. It is not as capable as a three-ring binder, has nowhere near the capacity of the file drawer at your desk, and isn’t as portable as a pocket-sized memo pad. And yet the clipboard persists, because it’s the best solution to a particular group of tasks.
I don’t understand the thought process of people who should know better who insist that tablets are a passing fad. Do they really think their potential customers are simply stupid? That the tens of millions of people who bought tablets, use them daily, and wax rhapsodic about them are going to wake up one day and realize they were wrong?
Tablets aren’t going to replace laptops, just as laptops didn’t replace desktops and desktops didn’t replace mainframes (though they’re mostly called “server farms” now). Too many companies will try to jump on the bandwagon, and many of them will fail, just as a lot of companies made bad bets in the early days of personal computers. But the combination of a tablet form factor and a touch interface is the right tool for a lot of jobs, and it isn’t going to go away any time soon.
Mundie went on to talk about a new type of smartphone technology he had seen in the labs. When the user looks at the phone, "instead of seeing a screen it can beam individual rays of light into your eyes right on your retina ... [so] you can look at your phone and see HDTV".I think there's no doubt that, given enough development time, something will come along to replace the display screen which will be smaller, yet give more FOV and resolution, than current screens.
I am thinking about buying an IPad- however it is very costly.
Is there a quality difference between an IPad and an android tablet?
The android tablets are much cheaper.
If I was to buy an android tablet, which brand is the best?
Just asking if anyone knows the answer , as I am computer illiterate.
If tablets ARE indeed a “flash in the pan”, Microsoft sure as hell won’t be doing anything to fill the void. Just about everything they’ve done over the past 5 or 6 years has certifiably sucked! They are barely relevant anymore. They are just running though money while sitting there, waiting to be replaced by someone.
I think the tablet computer will have a niche for a long time. It won’t replace the laptop but for some people it is all they need – particularly for gamers. Personally I prefer a full size keyboard separate from the screen.
I can think of only one electronic device that has disappeared, the PDA (Personal Digital Assistant for the younger crowd). Its functions have been taken over by cell phones.
I seldom take these people seriously. I remember when computers first became relatively small, affordable and we were promised the paperless office. How’d that work out?
Chief strategist, and reports directly to Ballmer.
Okay. That explains it.
Curious comments from Craig.
I have some photos, circa mid nineties of his brainchild, The Microsoft Home. In it there is a tablet PC (A prototype built by Toshiba I believe) that had an esoteric piece of software designed to interact wirelessly with the facility.
At a time when WiFi, broadband, and mobile computing were still in their infancies, he (or at least his people) seemed to recognize the value of tablets and mobile computing.