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Originally Posted by bhartman36
I adjusted my position, based upon the fact that some people here seem to feel that tablets offer a portability factor over netbooks/laptops. That's a matter of form, not function, though. I still stand by my statement that tablets (iPad, et al) don't actually do anything that a netbook or notebook don't do. The question then becomes, is someone who's already got one of these other portable devices going to shell out the money for a tablet? That's why price is an issue. Shelling out $100 for something that functions somewhat like a device I already have (with the limitation of not having a hardware keyboard or as many ports) is different from shelling out $500 for the same thing.
Some of you might remember a couple years back when Palm introduced the Foleo. One of the criticisms of that was that it tried to bridge the gap between smartphones and laptops, and people didn't feel that as a pressing need, for what they wanted to charge for it. Price makes a major difference. |
It seems clear that millions of people are willing to shell out for tablets even at their current price points. It stands to reason that sales will go gangbusters as prices drop.
I'm not going to argue form vs. function, because the overlap is great with tablets.