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Remember at that time Windows 8 was the MS solution for tablets and MS was getting killed in the tablet space as iOS took off. Windows 8 wasn't officially out u
by rb808 9y ago
Remember at that time Windows 8 was the MS solution for tablets and MS was getting killed in the tablet space as iOS took off. Windows 8 wasn't officially out until a year after the first iPad. They had to get it out asap.
- criddell 9y agoWindows 8 may have been a response to iOS popularity, but don't forget that Microsoft had been pushing tablets for a long time by then. They had a huge head start over Apple. If you want to include Windows for Pen Computing, then it was an 18 year lead that they lost overnight.
- robotresearcher 9y agoApple released their own hardware pen-based handheld computer in 1993. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton Windows for Pen Computing was released in 1992.
- criddell 9y agoGood point. I guess I would respond with the difference being that Microsoft developed the technology continually during that time whereas something like the Newton was a relatively short-lived product. For the record, I had a MP120 and absolutely loved that machine.
- jhbadger 9y agoYes, but Newton's OS had nothing to do with MacOS, being a completely independent system with its own API and even programming language (Newtonscript). Windows for Pen Computing was Windows.