![]() ![]() Tablets go back at least another decade, and more if you count such concepts as the Apple “Knowledge Navigator” that was introduced in 1987, or earlier yet, Alan Kay’s DynaBook of 1968. I often see references in the tech press on how Microsoft invented tablets back in 2001 when they introduced the Tablet PC. ![]() So let’s take a look at what’s really happening. Tablets are hot, tablets will demolish the netbook market, tablets will eat into notebook sales, Microsoft will gag and wither over having blown it with tablets, and so on and so on. Everyone is scrambling to also have a tablet. This whole tablet thing is really interesting.ĭespite getting soundly trashed by a good number of industry experts when the iPad was first announced by Steve Jobs on January 27, 2010, Apple ended up selling about ten million of them in 2010, and the same experts now predict that a lot more will be sold in the coming years. ![]()
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