Dave Winer realized today that he bought a Tablet PC….from Apple nonetheless.
“This idea snuck up on me. I was watching an Apple ad on TV, while washing dishes, so I caught it at an angle, and lost the sense of scale, and thought the iPhone was a tablet computer. Then I realized that it is!”
Yep, Dave, there are a lot of similarities between the Apple iPhone and Tablet PCs–in partcular UMPCs. The touch capabilities are one big factor in this.
However, there are some big things an iPhone is missing. Programmability is one. Yes, there’s the browser, but I mean at the level where a company could add their own TV streaming app or voice recorder or handwriting-based note app. The iPhone doesn’t attempt any handwritting or voice recognition either–like UMPCs and Tablets have built in. I hope this will change in the future. Fingers crossed.
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