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He said that over seven years ago. Two years before the Surface. The tablets at the time definitely did require a little pointy device to access the Start menu
by function_seven 9y ago
He said that over seven years ago. Two years before the Surface. The tablets at the time definitely did require a little pointy device to access the Start menu and interact with the "Tablet" OSes that were just desktop OSes with a few bolt-ons.
- genericpseudo 9y agoJobs has form for this kind of thing, too (breaking something to force developer behavior before reintroducing it when habits have changed). Best example: the original Mac had no cursor keys (to force developers to build mouse-based UIs). Steven Levy writes about it at length in "Insanely Great".