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The iPad vs. Microsoft's "Jupiter" Devices
harrymcc writes "A dozen years ago, Microsoft convinced major manufacturers to put Windows CE inside devices that looked like undersized touchscreen personal computers. The platform was code-named 'Jupiter' and shipped as Handheld PC Pro, and it flopped — it turned out that people wanted full-strength notebooks. But in retrospect, it was a clear antecedent of what Apple is doing — much more successfully — with the iPad."
Oh, forgot the link to how Courier looks like.
Can you believe that Apple is banning frameworks that create ipod compatible software???
Sorry Adobe. Sorry developers. Apple is about control and butsecks.
Steve Jobs and his evil empire Apple may impress the sheeple, but I was born free.
are you being paid to believe on all that crap?
I believe the OP is saying that MS has a history of over-promising and under-delivering. Vista was supposed to have a next generation file system. So was Cairo. Neither of them have such a FS.
Apple on the other hand doesn't release anything until they release it. But Apple has released betas in advance of products like the iPhone 3.2.2 Beta was released in January in anticipation of the iPad launch in April.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
How many people you think use ATM's around the world a day compared to iPad? Add in the factor that they are commercial products and hence more pricey. Just because it isn't marketed more and you have more fanbois telling everyone how revolutionary, life changing and great it is, doesn't mean theres no significant use of the system.
You might notice I made no statement about Windows Mobile in general, only that in phones it did not become a widely used mobile data device. All I'm pointing out is that "success" - a nebulous word - is better measured by actual usage, instead of counting the number of units sold. Accountants will count sales, but history will look at usage.
How is it that people conveiniently forget how much more expensive hardware was 10-20 years ago. My PC in the late 80's wouldn't hold a candle to an iPhone in processor, memory, storage anything. I payed nearly 5K for that beast, and it was the best money I ever spent. Hard drives used to cost hundred, if not thousands of sollars, as did memory... Saying the iPad is a 'better value' as compared to a 12 year old device is just moronic.
Exactly. I remember I spent $4000 on a *desktop* computer back then. It was amazing and it had something around a whopping 300Mhz. It had awesome hardware and could run all the latest games. Should we also make a story how shit and useless that computer was and how idiot I was to buy it because now 15 years later theres a better product?