VisiCalc's Dan Bricklin On the Tablet Revolution

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 15, 2012 @04:11AM from the respect-your-elders dept.

snydeq writes "Dan Bricklin, the co-creator of the PC revolution's killer app, weighs in on the opportunities and oversights of the tablet revolution. 'In some sense, for tablets the browser is a killer app. Maps is a killer app to some extent. Being able to share the screen with other people — that it's a social device — also might fit the bill. I think that for tablets, there isn't and won't be one killer app for everyone. It's more that there are apps that are killers for individual people. It's the sum of all those that is the killer app. This has been true since the original Palm Pilot.'"

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Re:No, its still an expensive toy. by marnues · 2012-03-15 07:18 · Score: 1, Flamebait

The first people I know that had iPads were businessmen. Reading and typing emails and basic shared documents is definitely easier than using a non-portable pc, since most businessmen are in meetings, not sitting at their desk. I'm not quite sure why the base line is that tablets are "just a toy". As if toys are inferior, or that every computing improvement begins life as a toy.