Why the Vivaldi tablet never came to market

Posted Aug 3, 2014 23:39 UTC (Sun) by DHR (guest, #81356)
Parent article: Why the Vivaldi tablet never came to market

Bootstrapping is hard. Innovating in multiple areas at once is risky.

There are a lot of touch-enabled notebooks now. I'd like my normal Linux desktop to let me use touch. That seems like a modest goal. It requires no hardware innovation.

Once that is mastered, perhaps innovation in hardware might be possible. Maybe.

I've used Nokia tablets. Sharp Zaurus. OLPC. ThinkPad x61t with Linux. None of these experiences have been great. Promising, but not great.

Android on Nexus 10 seems great. IOS on iPad seems great. But I miss the power of a notebook PLUS touch.