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> I mean, I'd love it if Chevy held a press conference and said they were going to sell Camaros for $10k. But it won't happen and I'm not going to get all indig
by elblanco 17y ago
> I mean, I'd love it if Chevy held a press conference and said they were going to sell Camaros for $10k. But it won't happen and I'm not going to get all indignant about it.
I think the analogy is wrong. Myself, and many of the people I know were expecting a scaled down Mac experience in a tablet form factor, price and feature competitive with netbooks (<=$500).
OSX already runs well on hacked netbooks, so the hardware is more or less ready, put on a better display that works at a higher rez, make it touch sensitive, squeeze it into a tablet form factor, mix in driver software to handle the various and obvious netbook/tablet widgets like a webcam and tilt sensors, charge $499 for it and voila! Instant win.
Instead we got the equivalent of people showing up to the Chevy Volt unveiling, and seeing a Segway that had been scaled up to seat 2 at the same price as a Malibu.
- wtallis 17y agoOnce you add in the multitouch, accelerometer, and processors powerful enough to smoothly present the UI at the higher resolution, you don't have enough left in your budget (or the physical enclosure!) for a battery big enough make the device not suck. Instead of compromising on battery life, Apple chose to simplify the device down to something that $500 of hardware can actually do for 10 hours.