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WOW! This guy doesn't believe a tablet would sell!

by seasoned
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    I would've thought the same thing.

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    I still don't see a use for them.

    A tablet is basically a laptop without a keyboard.

    I can see the use for a tablet like thing that you can use as a conventional book
    but for anything bigger?
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    I use mine all of the time. I have several laying all around the house. If I need to know something I just pick up one of the tablets and look it up.

    However, when this video was made, the technology wasn't the same. Apple has perfected the use of multi-capacitance touch screens. When this video was made, there was no sliding of you finger across the screen to move things around, or spreading of your fingers on the screen to zoom in and out. And the way microsoft expected you to input data was with hand-writing recognition software, which was slow and buggy. Also it was missing one major function that all present day tablets have that make them so appealing, and that's the ability to easily add your choice of apps from a library of apps.

    And he was right - those buggy featureless tablet would never sell well.
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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by garyv View Post

      I use mine all of the time. I have several laying all around the house. If I need to know something I just pick up one of the tablets and look it up.

      However, when this video was made, the technology wasn't the same. Apple has perfected the use of multi-capacitance touch screens. When this video was made, there was no sliding of you finger across the screen to move things around, or spreading of your fingers on the screen to zoom in and out. And the way microsoft expected you to input data was with hand-writing recognition software, which was slow and buggy. Also it was missing one major function that all present day tablets have that make them so appealing, and that's the ability to easily add your choice of apps from a library of apps.

      And he was right - those buggy featureless tablet would never sell well.
      Well, they DID have touch sensitive devices and multiplexing had been around a long time. Heck, IBM keyboards used to use that tecnique and even computer memory does.

      As for the idea of writing, etc... Microsoft worked with that before the mid 1990s. I was even toying with working with a couple guys that wanted to start a business in it! It WAS something that I thought was nuts. The PALM pilots came out after that(incidentally using touch sensitive pads at least). They decided to use a simply learn-able method, as opposed to having the computer try to figure out what you wanted. And THAT was 5 years before this video!

      Steve
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      • Profile picture of the author garyv
        Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

        Well, they DID have touch sensitive devices and multiplexing had been around a long time. Heck, IBM keyboards used to use that tecnique and even computer memory does.

        As for the idea of writing, etc... Microsoft worked with that before the mid 1990s. I was even toying with working with a couple guys that wanted to start a business in it! It WAS something that I thought was nuts. The PALM pilots came out after that(incidentally using touch sensitive pads at least). They decided to use a simply learn-able method, as opposed to having the computer try to figure out what you wanted. And THAT was 5 years before this video!

        Steve
        That's true, but no one marketed multi-touch capacitive screens until apple used them in their iPhones in 2007. The touch screens being used up until then could only recognize one point of impact at a time, which made it impossible to do the things that a tablet can do today.
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        • Profile picture of the author seasoned
          Originally Posted by garyv View Post

          That's true, but no one marketed multi-touch capacitive screens until apple used them in their iPhones in 2007. The touch screens being used up until then could only recognize one point of impact at a time, which made it impossible to do the things that a tablet can do today.
          TRUE, but Apple was known for developing older technologies, and making things DO what they wanted. SERIOUSLY! WOZNIAK realized he needed things that cost a FORTUNE, and did things that allowed him to do MORE with less. EXAMPLES? COLOR! PIXEL GRAPHICS! REFRESHING! CHARACTERS! DISK DRIVES! At retail at the beginning, an APPLE II would probably cost 2-3 times as much without that! JOBS didn't care about cost or INNOVATION on the micro level AT ALL, but he DID stretch the envelope! EXAMPLES? MICE! GUIS! LASER PRINTERS! MULTIPROCESSING! ETC... You would think that gesture things would be one in their sights. They WERE in SCIFI movies.

          Steve
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