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Old 05-13-2011, 01:17 AM   #27
Andrew H.
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Actually using a Windows tablet I can say that this "windows is not for touch" is not really accurate. There are instances when something is a little inconvenient, but in general that statement isn't quite true. Besides, I am talking about 1-2 years into the future. I am sure Windows will be fully optimized by then.
Really? You think that in a couple of years, decades of windows conventions are going to be converted to touch and it's going to work as well as OS's designed from the ground up for touch? I'm pretty skeptical that this will happen.

The issue, though, isn't really windows; it's the programs that will run on the tablet. IOW, you need not just a touch optimized windows, but all of the programs also need to be touch optimized...but presumably also able to run unaltered on a desktop, where you won't be using touch.

And even if we assume that tablets powerful enough to run windows will exist in the form factor of, say, today's iPad 2 (which is plausible given how well w7 runs on my netbook), it's not clear to me that many of the applications you might want to run would be able to run on that windows tablet.

Nor is it the case that other tablet makers will stand still during these couple of years - the Xoom 3 may weight 9 oz and have a 15 hour battery life in two years.

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Does everyone need something that complex? The question is, must powerful always be complex? Also, I was talking about people who have two devices --- a laptop/desktop and a tablet. Why not buy one converged device that can handle the tasks of both equally well, doesn't cost much more than the tablet and is just as light with a battery lasting just as long? And that offers no limitations on what you can do with it?
This is a good question, but it assumes the existence of a converged device which may not exist. The one great insight that Apple had about the tablet was that it would work better with a custom OS and not with a desktop/laptop OS. Eventually there probably will be convergence...but I don't see it in the short term; I think that making it happen is really very complicated.

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Android and iOS tablets would continue to exist but at a price point below $200 as pure media consumption devices only.
That's basically what they are now. Of course, that's basically what home computers are now, too.
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