However, it was still not yet time—since even laptops had not been invented. The first tablet computer debuted the market in under the name of GRidPad, a name coined from the Grid System. However, before that, there were Graphic Tablets that connected to computer workstations. These Graphic Tablets enabled the creation of different user interfaces such as animation, drawing, and graphics. GRidPad was nothing near what Dynabook detailed.
They were bulky, weighing around five pounds, and the screens were far from the million-pixel benchmark Kay had set. Neither would the devices display in grayscale. Unlike the GRidPad, these computing devices had sufficient processing speed, fair graphics, and could sustain a generous amount of portfolio of applications. In , Fujitsu launched the Stylistic tablet that ran on an Intel processor.
This tablet came with Windows 95, which also featured on its improved version, the Stylistic This device ran on Comdex Technology and was to be the eye-opener into the future. This new device ran on iOS, an operating system that allowed for the integration of easy-to-customize features, an intuitive touch screen, and the use of gestures. In , the Chairman of Microsoft at the time, Bill Gates, presented the Microsoft Tablet PC , which would be the first generation of commercial tablets that they somehow wanted to revolutionise the market with this new type of mobile IT device.
The gamble did not pay off; the device was neither practical nor versatile. Hence, the title for the first real tablet goes to the Apple iPad , which was launched some eight years later. Both the former and the latter came about thanks to the ideas — or, to put it more precisely, the vision — of one of the most important men in graphical user interface design in computing, Alan Kay.
In , while he was working for the mammoth Xerox corporation, Alan Kay published his most well-known and significant article, on which all his ideas and visions since then have been based. In «A personal computer for children of all ages» Kay demonstrated his vision of taking computing to all the children in the world; and the Dynabook was the tool that, in theory, would make this possible.
The Dynabook was the first real portable and versatile PC, although it unfortunately has never been anything other than a concept , though being such an important one that it set out the guidelines for what are now known as PCs and tablets.
Tablets actually began decades before the iPad was launched in The is one of the first handwriting-recognition tablets. By using it's stylus, you could write on the green screen.
Some call this the first tablet computer. It was pricey and heavy compared to laptops of the era. With a stylus, you could write on it and it would recognize your handwriting though it wasn't particularly good at that.
This device proved that people wanted a third type of mobile device between a cell phone and a laptop, if it was affordable and was easy to use. By , Microsoft was serious enough about the Tablet PC to have a version of its XP operating system designed for it and to sign up PC makers to build some models.
But they were costly and not popular with consumers. They were mostly used in factories, by the military and by other field workers. The LS was the smallest tablet ever with an 8. In , the iPad arrived, with a gorgeous touchscreen that people had grown to love from the iPhone and iPod touch. A lot of people said it would fail.
It didn't. As of last October, Apple had sold at least million total and is expected to sell 33 million more in , plus another 55 million iPad Minis. But eventually the prices dropped and the free-and-open-source Android operating system led to more variety and lower-priced devices.
By , Microsoft was back in the tablet game, recognizing hat tablets were not only a threat to its PC empire, but were the future of PCs. It also admitted that Apple's model of producing the hardware and the operating system was superior and dove in with its first-ever Microsoft PC, the Surface.
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