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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Bill Gates gave his thought on ipad

Some times early June, during an appearance on Larry King Live on CNN , Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates said that while he liked Apple’s iPad, it’s “not quite there yet.”
Huh? How’s that? Said Gates:
We’re all trying to get to something that you just love to take to a meeting and use and it is not quite there yet. You need to have input. You need to take notes and edit things. Microsoft and a bunch of other companies are working on getting that final, ultimate product. [...] It still isn’t the device that I’d take to a meeting because it has no input.
You may not be aware Gates has always argued about this. Although it is self-evident that the iPad does, in fact, have “input,” but Gates is making a point here, he has gone on record numerous times dismissing any tablet that doesn’t have one.
But hear what someone said: "A stylus is nice, but Gates’ real problem is he can’t get away from thinking about mice… to which the stylus plays touchscreen analogue. He’s still thinking in mouse icons and cursors… but if anything, the iPad has proven that, for a touchscreen device, the old mouse+keyboard dichotomy is irrelevant. A tablet is a computer you interact with through touch, not the metaphor of a mouse… which, in and of itself, is meant to represent a pointing finger on the screen.
Would it be great if the iPad had an optional stylus accessory? Absolutely. But his claims that tablets should be primarily driven by them are absolutely fogeyish".

But if you ask me, whether this device is made for consumer or for IT professionals, the fact is that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well. Bill gate has a point here.

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