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Steve Jobs, Before the iPad, On Why Tablets Suck
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Edible Apple: "Apple didn't release the first tablet computer or even come up with the idea for tablet computing itself. If anything, Microsoft, and Bill Gates in particular, were championing tablet computers years before the iPad was released. In this video clip from the first All Things D conference in 2003, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs explains to Walt Mossberg why Apple, at the time, wasn't keen on tablets and more specifically, why Jobs felt that stylus computing and handwriting recognition were inherent failures."
Apple does sell a keyboard accessory, specifically designed for the iPad. The iPad is also compatible with any bluetooth keyboard.
What mistake? Handwriting recognition at the time sucked. Hell, it still sucks. Tablets were emphasizing writing stuff rather than typing stuff.
Note the iPad uses a touch-screen keyboard, not handwriting. I don't really see an inconsistency with what Jobs said then and what Apple is building now - and that's coming from a guy who is anything but an Apple fan.
"I disagree with you" does not equal "flamebait."
By the time Microsoft was ready to deal with IPv4, next-generation technologies were already being developed because the sustained demand was too great. IPv6 stacks were actually being released for Windows before Microsoft's IPv4 stack was integrated - and that's even after Microsoft took most of their network code from the BSD tapes.
I'm going to have to say you're wrong.
Windows 95, released in August 1995, integrated an IPv4 stack. The first IPv6 RFC, RFC1883, was posted in December 1995. It was replaced in December 1998 with RFC2460.
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