Quote Originally Posted by Icyculyr View Post
I think there was a mockup of a tablet PC in the 60's.
That was the Etch-a-sketch.


The reason it's working now is that the technology to build these kinds of devices is present, whereas in 2002 it wasn't.
I disagree. The early tablets were all sold with the idea that you could write on it like you would on paper. Every one of them talked about that like it was a great thing. They all foundered because that was actually a fantastically stupid idea. Nobody who can type has any desire to write, because they can type FAR faster than they can write (and they can read what they wrote, too). What that means is that they were being sold on being used for creation, but that's not what they are good at. These days, tablets are all about consumption. While there are a few apps that allow masochists to create on a tablet, the vast majority of uses for tablets are for consumption exclusively. Content creation on a tablet is minimal, at best, which is why the early tablets missed the mark. Content creation was the point of early PCs, but content consumption has become the predominant use, with few people doing any significant creation.