Last Tablet PC user in the wild dies
Posted by Matthew on Sunday November 2, 2003 @10:17PM
from the survival-of-the-fittest dept.
Matthew writes: The last Tablet PC user living in the wild has died, making the viability of the form factor doubtful. Tablet PCs are now represented only by small populations spread amongst zoos, museums, and at Microsoft’s corporate headquarters.
“It’s certainly a sad day. Every time we loose a unique form factor, it’s less diversity. Who knows what medicine could have been developed on the platform? We may just have lost the cure for cancer.” says computer industry analyst Seymour Cleverly.
“But let’s face it: The tablet features were a metabolic cost that made the species less nimble in the sales race than lower cost competitors in the straight laptop market. Couple that with the not-quite-ready-for-prime-time voice and handwriting recognition, and you’ve got a niche species that just wasn’t going to do well against the native species in the market area.
Microsoft has announced captive breeding programs with the goal of eventually re-establishing Tablet PCs in the wild.