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Apple iPad: The End of Tablets As We Know Them
From: Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:36:03 -0400
Sent from my iPad - 32 gig model. Review to follow Sunday to give a chance to use it. Djf Begin forwarded message:From: Jonathan B Spira <jspira () basex com> Date: April 3, 2010 2:24:46 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Apple iPad: The End of Tablets As We Know Them?Dave IP readers will be familiar with many of the examples I cite in my article, Apple iPad: The End of Tablets As We Know Them? "The launch of the Apple iPad today has many proclaiming this moment to be akin to the information revolution sparked by Gutenberg’s invention of mechanical movable type ... Look at an important (and related) parallel: the move from analog to digital photography. ... The history of tablet computing goes back to the 1950s and 1960s with the Styalator, the Rand Tablet, and Alan Kay’s Dynabook concept. The first commercially viable tablet was the GridPad (1989) ... Article continues at Apple iPad: The End of Tablets As We Know Them? Regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Szívélyes üdvözlet/Cordialement/Cordiali saluti/Saludos/Vänliga hälsningar /s/ Jonathan
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