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Originally Posted by petermillard
That's because previous (and current) tablets really haven't been very good and have tried to be all things to all people - a full desktop OS shoehorned into a device it wasn't intended for, and with minimal effort to adapt it to its new surroundings; in other words, a PC in tablet form.
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Agreed. Few people have need for a laptop with a touch screen that can be flipped around. Too heavy to hold like a clipboard the legal bad and write, runs too hot, short battery life.
Add in that the OS's weren't optimized for touch use since they were just laptops with touch screens and they were pretty pointless for most people.
A thin, light tablet, that doesn't run hot, gets good battery life and is built specifically around touch use has a much better chance of being useful to more people I think.
Add in a keyboard dock, or blue tooth keyboards etc. and you expand it more to include people who need to do a lot of typing. But I know plenty of people who 90% of their internet use is just reading news, reading blogs, reading updates of Facebook/twitter, watching video etc. Not eveyone is always posting on forums etc. and needing the keyboard on all their internet devices.