Re: [NTLK] the Tablet Rumor arises AGAIN!

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Fri Feb 10 2006 - 12:14:54 PST


fsorvin_at_alumni.sfu.ca wrote:
>
> Check out the story at Cult of Mac on the Tablet Rumor. The demoed interface
> will blow you away.
>
> http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/

Leander is stringing together a handful of UNRELATED things.

1) That Apple patent on multi-point touch screen interfaces. Woo. Yay. Big
tech companies patent all kinds of stuff all the time. Doesn't mean that
there's a *product* behind it.

2) Looks like some NYU guys did a similar thing, and made some nice demo
videos. They happened to use OS X. Coincidence.

3) Throw those into the rumour mill and you get - HI-TEK APPLE TABLET D00DZ!!!

I don't think Apple is going to be making a tablet PC. They've got a good
thing going with millions of people shelling out lots of money for
incremental hardware and software updates since 1998.

Remember, a corporation's ultimate responsibility is to its shareholders, and
shareholders want to make money. New funky interfaces are not required to
make money. A good business model like the paragraph above, though...

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