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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Tablets are computers without keyboards. Companies fail because they enter the market at $499 or a bit below. That's too much money and very few people will pay it. They also fail because they only make one model.
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Computer parts are commoditized nowadays. The marginal cost of launching another product approaches zero.
Not so with tablets. Yes, there're components that can be called off-the-shelf, but a lot of them are expensive, have low yields (further increasing scarcity) and few suppliers. Hence, most manufactures cannot afford to diversify their product line at this point in time.
This will probably change in the future, but for now there're real constraints out there.