The whole idea of replacing the watch with a band that acts as a mobile computer would be interesting, for the very fact that it would replace the real estate (our wrists) once used for a single point of reference on time.

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Though Surface is clearly a tablet device, Sinofsky pointed out that the process of developing Windows 8 (on which Surface's Windows RT operating system is based) started in the summer of 2009, when there was no Apple iPad as a reference point (though it remains unclear if Microsoft began working on its tablet at that time).

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