NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS 2011
1. Get my hands on a Samsung Galaxy TAb
I also want a tab, but I'm not convinced yet by the current offerings. :-/
By the time a decent Tab oriented OS hits the Galaxy tab there'll be much better, faster dual core Tabs on the market. Also, it's waaay too expensive when taking the limitations into account.
To be honest I'd rather want something with an -almost- complete Windows 7 OS running a decent touch intergrated interface. The trimmed down OS's on the current tabs don't excite me that much (They're cool, but not R8K cool). We need some kind of hybrid OS with the functionality of a full OS and the option of a clean and quick user interface like we see on the current iOS4 and Android 2.2.
If I was Microsoft I'd start cashing in on the tab craze right now. Take Windows 7, trim it down (there's a crapload of bloatware functionality they can get rid of in Win7), add a super sexy and responsive GPU hardware accelerated touch interface that allows the option to switch between the classic look and the touch focused UI (better yet, integrate them by using some kind of sidebar panels slide effect with full customization, even better, release the "Tab UI" part under GNU Licensing or something). By the time they're done with that there'll be super quick dual core tabs on the market, and using Win7 with the .NET Framework means even older developes like me can use their existing skills to create apps (add to that things like Silverlight, just check out that Facebook client application they've created for the desktop using Silverlight if you want to see what I mean, that thing looks like it was meant to grace the screen of a Tablet ...
http://www.silverlight.net/content/samples/apps/facebookclient/).
With the current MS market penetration and developer support they'll reach Apple and Android application levels in no time. Not to mention the existing Visual Studio and .NET languages are much easier to get used to than switching to say, Java for Android or development for iOS. Just add a nice Windows Tab SDK package to Visual Studio 2010, Emulators, components, support for easily creating and deploying packages. Geeks like me would rip each other to shreds to get a hold of something like that. If they release the Tab shell components under GNU licensing and they do a goob job at it, people won't feel the need to change it, if they screw it up somewhat there'll be loads of alternatives out there (*looks at Anroid*).
Either way they'll be selling Tabs like hotcakes. Everyone wins, except maybe their competitors with their glorified smartphone OS's who'll be staring down the throat of a giant.
