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The interface, mainly. Windows (or OSX, for that matter) based tablets have tried have failed for years. The iPhone/iPad OS is built from the ground up to be ta
by threepointone 17y ago
The interface, mainly. Windows (or OSX, for that matter) based tablets have tried have failed for years. The iPhone/iPad OS is built from the ground up to be tablet/finger friendly.
Remember, the iPad is NOT a laptop/netbook replacement in the traditional sense. The phrase 'media device' keeps popping up in my head.
- perokreco 17y agoCould you elaborate on Windows 7 finger-friendliness? What kind of a media-device does not accept memory cards or doesn't have a camera or a USB slot?
- threepointone 17y agoNever said Windows 7 was finger-friendly, and I don't think I'm qualified to comment on it, but imo, the win7 is simply geared to replace the mouse actions with a finger, and that's not helpful at all. And from where I'm looking, portable physical media storage is fast becoming non-essential(obsolete?) with respect to devices that are used for consumption of music, the web, books, etc; ie- CONSUMER devices. eg- laptops, ebook readers, mp3 players, etc. I'm a tech-savvy person, and I've had a broken dvd-drive on my laptop for about 7 months now. I've never found a reason to fix it; I'm as surprised by that as anybody else, I suppose. I play movie dvds on my console, and the eye-fi card on the camera is handy as hell.