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Does nobody remember that there were big corporations trying to get a tablet out for the last decade and have terribly failed to do so? The iPad is not at all
by preek 15y ago
Does nobody remember that there were big corporations trying to get a tablet out for the last decade and have terribly failed to do so?
The iPad is not at all obvious. It is intuitive. That's why everyone thinks it's obvious _after_ having seen and used it.
- vacri 15y agohttp://gdeluxe.com/tablets-before-ipad-part-ii/ http://gdeluxe.com/tablets-before-ipad-part-ii/ Turns out that there are actually quite a few tablets before the iPad that sport design features that supposedly only arrived in 2010.
- preek 15y agoPerfect link. Thanks! All of them have either a stylus, are cluttered with buttons all over the place or have a stock WinXP which is totally useless for touch. For these reasons, all of them failed terribly and nobody bought them. I haven't seen one of these IRL. I see my point proven, so thanks again for the link.
- DanBC 15y agoNo. Many of those tablets have features (eg, rectangular shape with rounded corners) that are supposed to be not obvious. It's more evidence that a lot of iPad is evolutionary not revolutionary. See also PDAs which contain a bunch of features which are covered by patents. (a big menu button at the bottom centre of the screen).