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And some stupid piece of idiot in Microsoft made a tablet computer in 1995. Shows that idiot since tablets and touchscreens never took off.
I actually don't think that's an apt comparison for this. Valve isn't inventing the wheel here, there are dozens if not hundreds of companies that sell prebuilt PCs. I'm a massive fan of Valve and Gaben by the way, I just don't think this is a solid business decision on any front.
It's not a pre built PC, it's a gaming console that can also be a PC, if needed. That's how the steam deck is marketed, that's how the previous steamos PC was marketed, and clearly Lenovo thinks the marketing will work. A unified simple introduction to PC gaming as cheap as any console but with near infinite backwards compatibility is a pretty good sell to the normies who have nothing but marginal upgrades to look forward to in the console space.