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Isn't he basically describing an iPod Touch with a bigger screen?
by river_styx 18y ago
Isn't he basically describing an iPod Touch with a bigger screen?
- yangyang42 18y ago... but only wants to pay $200 for it.
- deepster 18y ago...and he only wants to pay you with a free tablet!
- aardvarkious 18y agoI didn't see anywhere that the early prototypes would be free to developers: just that they would get first dibs.
- babul 18y agoHe will get his for free of course, as will a bunch of celebs and media tech "stars" etc. etc., but the rest of us will be the ones who have to pay for it.
- ph0rque 18y agoAs long as it's only $200, I don't mind...
- jodrellblank 18y agoNo. Sites I want YC to fund include a new product review site. One that focuses on the details of a device's software rather than pure hardware spec. The iPhone/iPod touch is far from just a tablet with firefox (safari) on it. It's understandable, affordant, responsive, coherent, slick, sleek, predictable, wonderful. It has QWAN by the bucket load. It DWIM. And you don't get a feel for that in a review that talks about its 128Mb RAM and 400Mhz processor and IMAP email support. That makes it sound identical to my Windows Mobile HTC, yet between the two is a vast yawning cavern of difference. What he describes is, frankly, a crap idea. It's got a big touch screen, processor, memory, storage, OS, power supply, video card, mainboard, USB controller, WLAN, but No keyboard, and with extremely limited software. Yes, a general computer with extremely limited software. Exactly what drives the development of OpenMoko, pwnagetool, Linux, ipodlinux, DD-WRT and openWRT, linux for the PS2 and on and on. Has he seen the Asus EEE inspired Dell E? The other dozens of small, cheap, wireless-enabled, flash driven linux subnotebooks?