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In 2003 I bought a Compaq TC1000, one of the first slate style tablet computers. At the time Microsoft was pushing a version of Windows XP that featured an onscreen keyboard. The primary input method of these early tablet computers was a stylus which was fantastic for software like Autodesk Sketchbook; a stylus is not ideal for text input so Microsoft bundled hand writing recognition with its virtual keyboard. Unfortunately handwriting recognition is notoriously unreliable and I didn’t find it particularly useful.

Apple launched the iPhone a short while after I started at iSTORM. I was quite skeptical at the time, having never been an Apple or…