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Originally Posted by carld
I think the potential market is a lot more than 100. If Amazon puts out a good quality tablet at a reasonable price, they'll sell a bunch of them.
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The problem I see is that it's going to take more than a quality tablet at a reasonable price. Arguably, there are already tablet makers doing that (e.g., Motorola), and they're getting creamed by the iPad, from what I understand. The Nook Color is doing reasonably well (again, from what I understand), but that's mostly an e-reader, out of the box. They're going to have to settle for the scraps from people who haven't already bought into some form of tablet, but want to, and do it at a price that beats the Nook Color. I just don't see that pool of people as being very large. If they sell a tablet that's not locked down, I don't think they can sell it at a Nook Color price.
The more I look at this, the smaller the set of potential users becomes.
I see ANDs between A, B, and C, rather than ORs.
If they can somehow develop a full-function tablet (e.g., with the Android Market, multitouch, etc.), and keep it at Nook Color price level, then they may have something. But I think that if that could be done, B&N would've already done that with the Nook Color.
It would be interesting to know how many people bought Archos tablets, because that's where I see this fitting in.