So where was Microsoft and other tablet manufacturers during the iPad "revolution". Were they touting their upcoming high-resolution displays? Huge battery rese

So where was Microsoft and other tablet manufacturers during the iPad "revolution". Were they touting their upcoming high-resolution displays? Huge battery reserves? Easy app development platforms? Nope. ALL of the Windows and Android tablet development is 100% reactionary response to the success of the iPad. ALL OF IT. There was no real consumer tablet market before the iPad - period. And there continues to be NO innovative technology being introduced by any of the tablet makers and Microsoft. MS seems to think it can destroy the iPad by the simple introduction of Window 8 Table and Metro. I've used Metro in the Windows 8 Preview - it's garbage. It doesn't pass the Grandmother test and will flop with consumers. Sorry but pushing it to PCs and then glorying in the fact that consumers will swoon and insist their tablets have it is insane.