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The idea of a touch-only PDA device has been around in science fiction literature for decades. Perhaps nobody expected a company to implement it when Apple did
by tensor 17y ago
The idea of a touch-only PDA device has been around in science fiction literature for decades. Perhaps nobody expected a company to implement it when Apple did with the iphone, nor did they expect Apple to to be the one doing it. But the idea is far from unimaginable.
After it came out, I doubt many people really thought it would fail. The potential was pretty obvious. Of course competitors will claim it's going to fail. What do you expect them to do? Encourage people to buy their competitions product?
The iPad. It is a big iPhone, with a few new interface elements. Yes, you can do more with it, but scaling up a bathtub hardly a stunning idea. Perhaps the first swimming pool was an engineering feat, but not a feat of imagination.
- tjogin 17y agoIt is not a feat of imagination to scale an iPhone up to the size of an iPad, but it is extremely unimaginative to not realize that it makes a world of difference in how and for what it can be used. I'm not saying Apple is enormously imaginative, I'm saying its critics often are unimaginative; they are unable to imagine the applications. The same way a swimming pool is just a big bathtub, it makes all the difference in the world. You can't do the same things in a bathtub as you can in a swimming pool, or a lake, or an ocean. Scale changes everything.