"Yes, You'll Own Two Tablets" What the ...?

[dilettante]

I'm only interested in tablets for the software market they represent. I just worry things are getting too fragmented. All of those "app stores" want to charge you big fees and want a big cut of sales. Just the cost of belonging to one is bad enough for somebody who wants to do side jobs making software to sell there.

[dilettante]

Not to harp on Trek as a model, but here are some later "data pads" I found. The sizes seem to be from about the 7" size in one case to more like 8 or 9" size in the Jake Sisko case.

I'll note that the tablets I've used with capacitive touch instead of resistive single-touch tend to be worse at accepting a finer point stylus for handwriting recognition, drawing, and all tasks actually. The common capacitive stylus has a fat, blunt tip (fatter than a pencil eraser), a fine-tipped stylus seems to be "seen" with lots of skips in a drawn line.

More evidence these devices are better suited as universal remote control substitutes or as entertainment devices. Yet even on a tablet with Win8 on it, Windows Media Player, DivX Player, and other mainstream entertainment software all use controls too small for reliable finger-touch or cap stylus clicking.

This stuff isn't even close to ready for prime time.

[dilettante]

Here's about as good as it gets using one of the thinner cap-styli available. I'd be ashamed if my 3 year old resistive-touch phone did so poorly, but of course it can use a real stylus.