While bringing up the idea of a tablet three things come to mind for me:
Market. Who's going to buy it and why would a company pursue creating it to sell it.
Portability. Can you actually carry it around, or is it just a giant piece of glass? does it have annoying hinges?
Reliability. goes hand in hand with portability in a tablet. it's about getting around scratching that giant screen, also it is about being able to drop it
Originally Posted by
Tark
I think that if these tablets are marketed right they could create a new market. People that work with desktop all day can use something like this. They'd become personal Internet access devices. As versatile as a laptop but easier to carry.
netbook. computer makers aren't looking to do that again, nor in my mind did they ever intend to; it was merely an offshoot of the OLPC program. they're hating themselves for it already. best market I see for this is the mixed pen/paper/computer user. I'm thinking student, much like the kindle except with notes on one side and equations/literature on the other. A desktop is much more useful than this will be in it's first handful of generations, so there won't be much market share to gain there anyway--not enough to get the ball rolling at least
Looking as if it's little more than a few times the size of an iPhone it seems really portable, simple math, if you fold it and it's not too thick, you've doubled the effective size in half the space.
I see the two screen thing working really well unlike you guys. a laptop screen closes like that without problems, why not this? Nintendo DS anyone? Actually, someone might want to look up nintendos patents for this bs... they might actually hold something like this already
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so unlike some, I see this as the best effort for a tablet thus far.
did anyone catch the new OLPC concept? :chuckles:
After threatening the first OLPC and completely creating the netbook market they've gone insane and think that they're the invisible hand of technology