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pdurrant · 08-23-2011, 05:42 PM

The main thing an iPad competitor needs to do to compete with the iPad is to actually be better than an iPad.

If it's about the same capability, and about the same price, it will fail.

E.g., the HP Touchpad seems to have been a reasonable device. Remarkably similar to an iPad in many ways. But at almost exactly the same price, there was no reason to choose it above the iPad.

08-23-2011, 05:42 PM	#235
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 74,082 Karma: 315558332 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Oasis	The main thing an iPad competitor needs to do to compete with the iPad is to actually be better than an iPad. If it's about the same capability, and about the same price, it will fail. E.g., the HP Touchpad seems to have been a reasonable device. Remarkably similar to an iPad in many ways. But at almost exactly the same price, there was no reason to choose it above the iPad.