{"id":13266,"date":"2020-08-17T07:34:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T14:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=13266"},"modified":"2020-08-15T14:58:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T21:58:39","slug":"after-10-years-of-teasing-microsofts-dual-screen-device-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/17\/after-10-years-of-teasing-microsofts-dual-screen-device-arrives\/","title":{"rendered":"After 10+ years of teasing, Microsoft&#8217;s dual-screen device arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back in the day (like, when Obama was brand new in office), I was intrigued by Microsoft&#8217;s dual-screen tablet Courier concept. Check out this preview from 2009:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Microsoft &quot;Courier&quot; secret tablet\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UmIgNfp-MdI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The device never saw production, and some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FiftyThree\">brains<\/a> behind it went on to launch the lovely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/3\/29\/2909537\/paper-drawing-ipad-app-fiftythree-brains-behind-courier\">Paper drawing app<\/a> for iPad. Now, however, the company is introducing the Surface Duo, and I think it looks slick:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The new Surface\u00a0Duo. Do one better.\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CqRKOY4Cgvw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fun detail I&#8217;d never have guessed in 2009: it runs Android, not Windows!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prices is high ($1400 and up for something that&#8217;s not really a phone or a laptop\u2014though something that could replace both some of the time?), and people are <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/08\/14\/probeat-microsoft-surface-duo-dead-on-arrival-price\/?utm_campaign=Feed%3A%2Bventurebeat%2FSZYF%2B%28VentureBeat%29&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_source=feedburner\">expressing skepticism<\/a>, but we&#8217;ll see how things go. Congrats to the folks who persevered with with that interesting original concept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day (like, when Obama was brand new in office), I was intrigued by Microsoft&#8217;s dual-screen tablet Courier concept. Check out this preview from 2009: The device never saw production, and some of the brains behind it went on to launch the lovely Paper drawing app for iPad. Now, however, the company is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13267,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions\/13267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}