Re:Apple iPad rival HP Slate sees demand fizzle at 9,000 units
by sudont on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @11:50AM
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It's possible with the iPad. I'm thinking it's partially the right form-factor. I initially dismissed the iPad as junk, but after picking one up I was a little more convinced that it had a lot of value.
And heh, looks like Microsoft took a little bit of direction from cocoa touch in naming their classes "UIElement"
.NET apps would be a lot more valuable for in-house applications, although, Apple's 299/yr enterprise license takes a bit of air out of that.
WPF 4.0 has touch support, and seems pretty full-featured as far as I can tell. The problem I have building .NET apps is that I don't know anyone with a Windows touch device. It's hard for me to want to add touch support, given I have no customers for it. Although if MS paid me for my time... :-)
Which reminds me of one more thing for the list... Win8Touch needs to be able to run WP7 Silverlight apps. The market needs to be seeded with touch apps in order for the tablet to take off. This was THE most important thing Apple did for the iPad (followed very closely by incredible battery life).