- Microsoft Kinect to be on TV’s? Why?
- Oracle caught overcharging or not?
- Apple iPad dooming the Netbook say experts. I doubt it.
- Looks like the PC business will boom this year.
- YouTube adding video editing in the cloud.
- $88 Tablet running Android.
- Broadsoft IPO bombed.
- Nokia warns that next quarter might suck.
- Nintendo may buy back the company.
- SF approves crackpot law to no avail.
- FBI going after iPad hackers.
- RIM tablet seen as a threat. Har!
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Is the FBI going to raid my house now that I reprogrammed my xbox?
Who are they working for?
GUYS: GO GET A REAL JOB THE FBI IS A JOKE and 9/11 DEMONSTRATED YOUR DANGER TO THE US PUBLIC.
I’m totally enthusiastic about tablets.
I’m skeptical about most of the consumer crap that the industry tries to sell us but tablets for me are the real-deal.
Why? Content delivery.
eBooks, videos, games, TV, news, social networking, etc.
Phones _sort of_ do this, but the screens are too small.
Computers _sort of_ do this, but it’s a bummer being tied to a desktop or having to boot-up a laptop.
But a tablet is perfect for content delivery.
… on the iPad vs Netbook debate.
I also doubt that the iPad will doom the netbook. The iPad is great for consuming media but a netbook is better for document creation and communication.
Of course, you can add a keyboard and mouse to an iPad but that defeats the cool part of it.
However, I think netbooks will hurt the low-end laptop market. The smaller size and lower-price is hard to pass up.
A net book is what I grab on the rare occasion I need a computer and can’t use my desktops.
I suppose a ipad would come in handy but I’m already paying for very high speed DSL. I’d only use it on wifi and those things can’t carry around what I want to haul. My music, pictures and home videos.
A $250 netbook is wonderful, but an open standards $80 tablet will do 98% of what a netbook can do, only more cool.
Here’s that Android tablet.
@sargasso
Open standards are one thing. Object code that doesn’t have spyware galore in it is another. If you don’t compile it yourself you can’t be reasonably sure it’s safe. This is why I’d never buy a generic Chinese Android tablet.
>> sargasso said, on June 16th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
>> A $250 netbook is wonderful, but an open standards $80 tablet will do 98% of what a netbook can do, only more cool.
Cool isn’t the main issue.
For most productivity, you need a decent keyboard.
For information and entertainment, a touch screen is enough.
>> qb said, on June 16th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
>> Here’s that Android tablet.
Thanks for the helpful link.
They are $88 if you buy 1000!
$125 or so is probably more like the real price. Even so, that’s getting close to my “$100 maximum” for any portable electronics that I can easily loose.
I tried some of these KIRF tablets from China and they are terrible. The only way to go is Ipad.