Dave Winer realized today that he bought a Tablet PC....from Apple nonetheless.
"This idea snuck up on me. I was watching an Apple ad on TV, while washing dishes, so I caught it at an angle, and lost the sense of scale, and thought the iPhone was a tablet computer. Then I realized that it is!"
Yep, Dave, there are a lot of similarities between the Apple iPhone and Tablet PCs--in partcular UMPCs. The touch capabilities are one big factor in this.
However, there are some big things an iPhone is missing. Programmability is one. Yes, there's the browser, but I mean at the level where a company could add their own TV streaming app or voice recorder or handwriting-based note app. The iPhone doesn't attempt any handwritting or voice recognition either--like UMPCs and Tablets have built in. I hope this will change in the future. Fingers crossed.


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