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VisiCalc's Dan Bricklin On the Tablet Revolution

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Talent. by knuthin · · Score: 3, Funny

    If the guy who gave people a reason to buy a computer says this, it must be true.

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  2. New killer app for Bricklin... by CaptainLard · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm writing a new app that will revolutionize Dan Bricklin's life. It will randomly insert the word "killer" into every sentence he writes, thus cutting his workload in half!

  3. Re:i have a netbook? dont need tablet by CaptainLard · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you need a tablet? Judging by your post, probably not. Do you need a girlfriend? Judging by your post, desperately. But whichever one you get theres bound to be drama when your netbook finds out...

  4. Re:No, its still an expensive toy. by Gilmoure · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unless a tablet can batch render to the same degree as my 128,000 node cluster I built in the basement, it's totally useless and of no use to anyone, anywhere, at anytime, EVER!

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  5. Re:Size Matters by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 3, Funny

    flaw in your analogy.

    A tool belt will let me run around screaming, "I'M BATMAN!" while punching people in the face.

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  6. Re:First Post! by IwantToKeepAnon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh bitter, bitter ironies...

    #39365465 - timestamped 1 minute earlier

    From Dilbert Newsletter 49.0 -- InDUHviduals Humor Break

    I've also learned recently that "ironic" means anything you want it to mean. Example:

    Me: "I heard that Bob was killed by a meteor."

    Induhvidual: "Wow. That's ironic."

    Me: "Why is it ironic? Was he an astronomer?"

    Induhvidual: "No, it's ironic because, you know, what are the odds?"

    Me: "So anything unlikely is automatically ironic?"

    Induhvidual: "No, it also needs to be bad."

    Me: "This conversation is ironic."

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    "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy