My 2010 Best Mobile Computing Device Category Co-Winners: Apple's iPad and MacBook Air for Revitalizing the Dead Tablet & Netbook Markets
In Technololgy Review’s article,
writer Erica Naone claims that in 2010 Apple invented a new category of mobile device. I humbly disagree with that notion. Microsoft’s Tablet PC appeared a decade earlier. And, one could make the argument that Apple’s own Newton MessagePad appeared even earlier than that. Conceptually, Alan Kay’s Dynabook concept emerged in 1968. And, I’d argue that Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek prop designers had props that appeared close to our current concept of tablets in various forms way back in 1966.
Although Apple can’t take credit for inventing the tablet category, it did something ever more remarkable, in my opinion.
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