Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh
by nailer on Friday July 12, 2024 @01:02PM
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HTC G1 the original Android phone, was basically another sidekick. We’d have this shitty Android and WinMo for a decade longer and eventually things would get good.
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The slate form factor was already being explored by other manufacturers before the iPhone came out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada
Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh
by selectodude on Friday July 12, 2024 @02:03PM
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Sure, but unlike the iPhone, that thing was an unbelievable piece of shit.
It's not hard to extrapolate that something would have entered the market. I assume it would only have been a couple of years later.
Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh
by qingcharles on Friday July 12, 2024 @11:42PM
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Microsoft had been doing it since 2000 but never made it cool. Here's one from 2004:
https://www.theregister.com/2004/11/03/review_hp_ipaq_6340/
I had one since 2000 as a daily driver and I loved the thing, but the app library was horrible.
The funny thing is, iPhone launched with no support for 3rd party apps. It took damned near a year for the first apps to arrive.