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Steve Gillmor: Tablet as Information Appliance

Gates Paying Attention to RSS.  Another Scoble spotting, this 2004-05-25 eWeek article by Steve Gillmor has far more to offer than the usual "what took Bill so long?" and "watch out, here come the Borg!" analyses.  Gillmor talks about what it is that Gates gets and expresses from his position as visionary, and how the theme is unerring.

I am fascinated by the Tablet PC, and I won't have one until a year from now, securing my longstanding record as a late adopter (I still have two Windows 98 machines in the SOHO operation here, and my Windows XP Pro laptop was built in 1998).  And Steve Gillmor confirms my anticipation by pointing out that he won't give up his HP tablet, even though he still uses his Mac PowerBook, but more like a home-base system, in my view.

It is interesting how OneNote, full multi-media capture/manipulation/transformation/presentation (including ink), and simplified authoring, collaboration, and syndication figure into the evolving information-appliance nature of tablet configurations.  Yummy.
posted by orcmid at 5/28/2004 04:12:09 PM