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It is not so simple. Tablet computers before the iPad did not look anything like the iPad: http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/18/tablet-design-before-after-the-ipad/
by roadnottaken 15y ago
It is not so simple. Tablet computers before the iPad did not look anything like the iPad:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/18/tablet-design-before-after-the-ipad/ http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/18/tablet-design-before-after-th...
in hindsight, it seems like the only completely obvious way to design a tablet, but that fact in itself is the mark of great design.
- brazzy 15y agoSome tablet computers before the iPad looked very differently. Others... not so much.
- tikhonj 15y agoThat picture, which is shown much too often, is a perfect illustration only of selection bias. Going through past tablets and choosing the ones that were not black rectangles proves nothing except that some tablets did not look like the ipad. Some tablets now also don't look like the ipad.
- sbuk 15y agoIt's also a perfect illustration of why this and Samsung's arguments to the contrary are invalid.