Guest jacobgeek Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 During an interview in 2007 Bill Gates said this, Walt:What are the devices you might carry around five years from now? Bill: I don’t think you’ll have one device. I think you’ll have a full-screen device that you can carry around and you’ll do dramatically more reading off of that. Kara: Light. Bill: Yeah. I mean, I believe in the tablet form factor. I think you’ll have voice. I think you’ll have ink. You’ll have some way of having a hardware keyboard and some settings for that. And then you’ll have the device that fits in your pocket, which the whole notion of how much function should you combine in there, you know, there’s navigation computers, there’s media, there’s phone. Technology is letting us put more things in there, but then again, you really want to tune it so people know what they expect. So there’s quite a bit of experimentation in that pocket-size device. But I think those are natural form factors and that we’ll have the evolution of the portable machine. And the evolution of the phone will both be extremely high volume, complementary–that is, if you own one, you’re more likely to own the other. It mentions he likes the idea of a tablet device. Also this was said in front of Steve Jobs. Full article link: http://d5.allthingsd.com/20070530/d5-gates-jobs-interview/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224104-ipad-was-bill-gates-idea/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
i7mac2010 Posted August 9, 2010 Share Posted August 9, 2010 ...why not... ...not new the table where you can play, see picture, drop your drink, or let it appair a keyboard to use your mediacenter..... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224104-ipad-was-bill-gates-idea/#findComment-1527375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKA Posted August 9, 2010 Share Posted August 9, 2010 steve defiantly watches startrek .. first contact (was on tv in uk the other night!) geordi is clearly walking around with an ipad! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224104-ipad-was-bill-gates-idea/#findComment-1527407 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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