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Originally Posted by grndslm
...with a legitimate operating system and app ecosystem that's been designed around finger presses for, oh, quite a few more years than Microsoft has.
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You're kidding, right?
Without wanting to defend Microsoft: Windows XP did have touch support and outstanding handwriting recognition more than 8 years ago already.
I've had an excellent touchscreen tablet from Fujitsu in 2006. It simply didn't become an immediate success because of lack of games and other consumption products. But as a tablet it was outstanding.
But then again, this never was relevant for the success of a platform.
BlackBerry PlayBook and HP TouchPad both did have superior OSs. Superior to iOS - and Android as well. Both disappeared from the market rather quickly. Simple explanation: Majority of (potential) buyers wants their Angry Birds and the likes.
The success of a platform doesn't depend on the quality of the OS, but number of apps available. "Apps" unfortunately mainly being games and other none-prefessional stuff.