The only major interest that I've seen on a large scale has been that of FedEx looking to implement them with their current DADS system, in addition to maintaining open communications with cellular towers. Tablet PCs haven't been doing so hot (at least not in my neighborhood). Wishful thinking, and I'm wishing it too. "Maybe now we'll start seeing Linux only OEMs and resellers."
(sorry I couldn't find the article on a "good" source (ie: google news) so go easy on it. This is from the horse's mouth, a transcript of an interview between Steve Jobs and Walt Mossberg at "all things digital". We chose to do the iPod instead of a PDA. We believe that mode is what cell phones need to get to.
Light linux for tablet software#
What we've done instead is we've written what we think is some of the best software in the world to start syncing information between devices.
We didn't think we'd do well in the cell phone business. We believe cell phones are going to carry this information. What people really seem to want to do with these is get the data out. "And people accuse us of niche markets." I get a lot of pressure to do a PDA. We realized: Death would eventually take care of this." "We look at the tablet and we think it's going to fail." Tablets appeal to rich guys with plenty of other PCs and devices already. When Apple first started out, "People couldn't type. Anything less, especially with Apple's market share, will be a flop and Jobs knows it. But if/when Apple introduces one, it will need to be the most intuitive, uncomplicated, and convenient thing that anyone has ever made. The demand is from Microsoft, and from those hardware companies they've sold on the idea. Right now, there's no demand from the market for tablet PCs whatsoever. (The main reason the Newton failed is because it wasn't as easy to use as it needed to be it fell to Palm to reach that goal.) For what it's worth, the original Apple greenscreen PCs did pretty much the same thing. IIRC, there was virtually no real demand for the iPod when it was introduced (a 5GB digital music player? and $300 to boot?), but it was so whiz-bang and easy to use that it literally created its own market. You say that as if those two sentences had anything in common. If the market demands it, it'll definitely happen, and the current tablets on the market suck.
What's missing has been the killer app, and what kept a killer app from appearing was a lack of hardware support, which I believe will be over soon,'" writing "He's got some interesting ideas about where Jobs might go with his Digital Hub idea." (This is an Antaur-based machine, not the Toshiba tablet mentioned in October.)Īpple's bound to make a tablet eventually. Cringely column, in which Cringley makes the case that Apple is readying a tablet computer for market, and "suggests that 'until next year, the parts won't have been there to make tablet PCs successful. Maybe now we'll start seeing Linux only OEMs and resellers." Also on the tablet computer front, SeanAhern points out Cringely's latest Robert X. Good to see someone finally standing up against paying the Microsoft tax. This company seems to really have it in for Microsoft, with a 'No Windows' policy.
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It's not running a stripped OS like Windows CE, but a full-fledged copy of Lycoris Desktop/LX. Penguinrenegade writes " Element Computer has come out with the first sub-$1000 Tablet, and it doesn't come with Windows.
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