Apple didn't start from scratch with the iPad, they started from the iPhone. The iPad is just a really, really big iPhone on which you can't make or take calls. Which is no great loss, since iPhone is just a really, really small tablet with a kinda sucky phone app.
This is pure shit. I'm waiting to see if there will be any game changing going on when Android tablets are released. I'm optimistic. The more (actually user friendly) tablets there are out there, the better it will be for everyone.
The Ipad wasn't successful because it was built from the ground up. It was successful because Apple are great marketers, and there's lots of gullible people out there willing to pay over the odds for something that does less than the competition so long as it has a cool image.
It amazes me still that they could say they've built something from the ground up, and yet not have the imagination to come up with a single previously-unseen feature. But hey, people will always buy them, and act superior about their stupid consumer choices, because Apple fanboys have even less of a grip on reality than Justin Bieber fans.
It's not a consumer product. They'll aim this at vertical markets with legacy Windows apps -- medical, industrial, financial, etc.
There's a reason HP bought Palm, and a reason they're not talking about this device publicly. They'll quietly sell a decent number to businesses -- the form factor makes a lot of sense in the medical field especially. Doctors/hospitals can roll them out without having to build iPad apps from scratch, and they don't have to reinvent their security/authentication model to accommodate a new OS that doesn't play nice with Active Directory.
HP's biggest problem with this device will be convincing Microsoft to NOT advertise it. HP knows it's not an iPad competitor, but Microsoft won't have a viable consumer touch interface until Windows 8 (or Windows Phone 8) at the earliest.
HP's consumer slate will probably run webOS, and if that development runs into problems, it will be relatively easy for HP to make the same device run Android 3.0 (Gingerbread).
I knew someone who was working on Microsoft's Tablet PC a long time ago. Does anyone know what happened to that? I never saw it advertised or anything.
It amazes me still that they could say they've built something from the ground up, and yet not have the imagination to come up with a single previously-unseen feature. But hey, people will always buy them, and act superior about their stupid consumer choices, because Apple fanboys have even less of a grip on reality than Justin Bieber fans.
There's a reason HP bought Palm, and a reason they're not talking about this device publicly. They'll quietly sell a decent number to businesses -- the form factor makes a lot of sense in the medical field especially. Doctors/hospitals can roll them out without having to build iPad apps from scratch, and they don't have to reinvent their security/authentication model to accommodate a new OS that doesn't play nice with Active Directory.
HP's biggest problem with this device will be convincing Microsoft to NOT advertise it. HP knows it's not an iPad competitor, but Microsoft won't have a viable consumer touch interface until Windows 8 (or Windows Phone 8) at the earliest.
HP's consumer slate will probably run webOS, and if that development runs into problems, it will be relatively easy for HP to make the same device run Android 3.0 (Gingerbread).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo
http://moblin.org/
and whatevs