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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Of course tablets with a touch friendly, full featured OS haven't sold well in the past. That is because no such thing ever existed! They had some bulky and heavy compromise versions out there, with extremely short battery lives that also ran extremely hot.
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I'm still not buying the whole "full featured OS" as something that can be easily applied to any form factor. Why should it? Why should Microsoft or Apple or Google focus on making one OS to fit all? Then none of the form factors win. I certainly don't want iPhone OS on my Mac Pro workstation, and don't need Snow Leopard on my iPhone. Do I need an iPad, with what looks to be the iPhone OS but customized for a larger device? I am thinking, yes...it definitely is in my target usage.
I think its great that innovative companies are rethinking the whole OS idea anyways-I know some people still feel the need for existing OS's, and all they have to offer. And there will always be companies that will fill that type of need. I just wish they'd accept that Apple isn't that company-and Apple's approach isn't for them.
Fortunately, we now have this shiny APPLE forum for those of us who do believe that Apple's approach, in general, suits our needs-or rather, we have the open mind to accept the positives and negatives that Apple products always tend to have.
And the "Other Devices" forum has tons of interesting alternatives to Apple products. I hope many can find what they are looking for in that area-I think in the coming months a lot of new products are going to be released.
And hey, you can post over in the "Other Devices" forum about what other companies
are offering you, rather than just being stuck in this forum complaining about what Apple won't
