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Actually. Apple was really late to the market with the iPad. Microsoft had been doing tablets for 8 years before Apple came along (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC).

Apple was the first to bring down the price, make it holdable (in your hand), give it a battery that you don't need to worry about. Give it apps that were only designed for touch.

Android is iterating as much as Apple is. They will probably keep iterating until some big hardware breakthrough, maybe when someone releases a ARM86 (compatible ARM and x86 processor)? One major breakthrough of the original iphone was smooth finger tracking made available by the new capitative touch screen.



I'll just leave this little nugget here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton

Before, they were called PDAs and they've existed since the late 80s. Apple wasn't late, they were simply waiting for the technology arrive to do it right.




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