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310: 142: 36: 378:, consumers in the 1990s did not adopt tablet computing as enthusiastically as GO management had expected. In January 1994, only two weeks after acquiring GO, AT&T decided to cancel the Hobbit product line, leaving it no reason to continue to support EO or GO. They had by then ceased to develop for other chips, and sales on the other platforms were small anyway. Co-founder 370:
microprocessors. This sale raised much-needed cash but introduced new problems, as EO then ceased to coordinate well with GO's management, even considering adopting competing operating systems. Facing a cash crisis, GO agreed to sell itself to AT&T as well, bringing the two halves of the company
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The company enjoyed high levels of public awareness and generally positive attention from industry press, but it ran into fierce competition, first from Microsoft (whose Pen Services for Windows were later the subject of an
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project, and others. The company lined up software development partners but struggled to deliver the hardware and software on their intended schedule. In 1991, they spun off their hardware unit under the name
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says that in its lifetime, the company generated "no meaningful sales". The loss of AT&T's support left GO with little chance of future revenue and, after burning through $ 75 million of
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The current Go Computer is a '286-based platform that will never see the retail market, as it's for developers and evaluators only.
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operating system and hardware were found to infringe on a patent by GO Corporation concerning user interfaces for pen computers.
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Annotated bibliography of references to handwriting recognition, gestures and pen computing
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was a company founded in 1987 to create pen-based portable computers, and a pen-based
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investigation and patent violation suits by GO), and later from Apple's
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In a separate legal matter, in April 2008 certain features of the
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Barbarians Led by Bill Gates : Microsoft from the Inside
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public as its CEO), CFO and VP of Business Operations
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Notes on the History of Pen-based Computing (YouTube)
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