We must run in very different circles. I've been working in corporate IT for 18 years. I knew many Blackberry users. The vast majority of them had a personal phone in addition to the Blackberry. Blackberry was, for the majority, an email device.
I work for Intercouse Blue Mobo ( hint hint, I'll leave it at that ), and we had tons of people bringing in Blackberries because they liked them some much, in fact thats why we went to Blackberries in my department in the first place, due to employee demands and requests asking for them, thats how much people loved them, then everyone started demanding iPhone, and we switched over to them...for a bit, till we realized how ****** they were for our uses.
Tho I don't work in IT, I actually do simulations.
MS tablet PC's pioneered what we see in tablets today? Really? What specifically?
I would say the entire idea of a tablet, which did not exist in the commercial or consumer market at all before the tablet PC. So I would say, lots of things about the tablet, Microsoft started with.
MS's repeated attempts at "Windows Everywhere" failed miserably
Indeed it did.
Taking a desktop OS and porting it to non-keyboard/mouse devices was one of the most short-sided decisions every made.
At the time, I would have preferred it to something like an iPad, yes it was short sided but for me, I want a REAL operating system, not iOS.
I've never seen a tablet PC used outside of verticals such as sales reps, physicians and inventory/field recording/construction. Those are pretty small verticals.
And as small as those markets were, they still sold and made money, so not a failure. Not as huge as the iPad, but we are talking marketing here, I think that personally is what made the iPad such a great seller. I got an iPad 2 as a gift, collecting dust. Personally, I loved iOS on my 3GS, but I can't stand its limitations anymore.
For me, if it made profit, it was a success.
I'll admit to not following the netbook market but what netbook has a quad core processor and dedicated graphics? What did that "netbook" cost?
I bought mine awhile ago, reading off the specs, which are still stuck to it, because I'm to lazy to peel them off, has a AMD Quad Core Phenom something or other CPU, made by ASUS, 11 inch screen, big ole hard drive, Has the amd " vision " something in it, ( I'm reading off the sticker, I might boot it up later ), HDMI out, 4USB ports, and blah blah.
I'll get detailed specs if you desite, it ran me 680 dollars.
