“Don’t get me wrong: Microsoft needs a tablet. Apple sold 3 million iPads in two months, and that was amid howls that it was overpriced and underfunctioning,” Rothman writes.
MacDailyNews Take: Ignorant baboons love to howl almost as much as stock market manipulators.
Rothman continues, “The debate at the core is whether you build a tablet using a low-powered but lower-featured mobile operating system, as Apple did, or whether you go whole hog with a full-fledged PC operating system… The very need for a distinction between tablets and PCs seems to trouble Microsoft. According to the current strategy, the tablet — or ‘slate,’ as Ballmer calls it — is a PC.”
MacDailyNews Take: The reason why Ballmer calls it a “slate” is because Steve Jobs made him call it a “slate”: Apple Inc. owns iSlate.com – December 25, 2009
Multiple downsides need to be addressed:
1. The hardware required to run Windows 7 with full graphic support isn’t thin or cool.
2. The interface was designed for a mouse, keyboard and larger screen.
3. PC multitasking is not the same as tablet multitasking.
4. There aren’t (m)any touch apps for Windows 7.
Rothman concludes, “There is no hope for these tablets.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “David M/.” for the heads up.]