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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Some folks may remember the "ultra-mobile PCs" that were out a while back.
They were the results of a collaboration between Intel and Microsoft, using Microsoft's Origami as a base. They were essentially tablets.
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I've had a Samsung UMPC from 2008 to 2010.
I absolutely loved it.
But I've got a simple explanation, why iPad did succeed, where all the other tablets before had failed: iTunes.
Before iTunes, you had to use sheer endless sources:
- Music maybe from a single source.
- Movies, if you actually bought them, from another source, but still might have been a single source.
- Software (nowadays we call it apps): Each app from a different source.
I still have my old programs from 10 years ago backed up.
I put each .exe file in a separate folder. And I put the emails, containing passwords, registration numbers and such, into the very same folder.
I've got hundreds of those folders.
And still: Each time I reinstalled my system, some apps/programs had been missing. I simply couldn't remember, where I had bought a specific app. Games, for example, could be bought from tons of sources.
Now we use iTunes (or Google Play or the Microsoft store) as our central platform for every type of content.
That, in my opinion, is the single most important argument, why iPad did succeed.
And, funny enough, Apple did the very same before for music. iPods, imho, couldn't compete with the specs of Sony players or even Microsoft Zune. But the combination of iTunes and good enough hardware was outstanding.
And it shouldn't even have been a surprise: It had been Apple's approach for Macs as well = Hardware and OS from a single source.
Simple, but looking backwards all genius decisions seem simple...