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50 bucks and subsidized via ads? Then Microsoft loses an epic fortune and only has users without money. play Xbox games remotely over the internet? It's just

by gfosco 14y ago

50 bucks and subsidized via ads? Then Microsoft loses an epic fortune and only has users without money. play Xbox games remotely over the internet? It's just unfeasible. Control schemes on a tablet do not translate to console games. great handwriting recognition? Then it's going to require a stylus, and many won't care. Not a good enough feature... The world has largely moved on from this desire. program on it using any language you want? Lol! We're talking about Microsoft here! It's going to be a WinRT walled garden!

cryptoz 14y ago
You're missing the point that there isn't a single point that will cause a tablet to fail in the market. If it doesn't have a great screen, most people won't care (AT ALL). Those who do care won't buy it. If it doesn't have a great screen, costs a fortune, has no features and no apps, then it's DOA. Pointing to a single feature and saying "this is the only thing the market cares about" is silly and rarely a useful metric to look at.
- gfosco 14y ago
  The dominating feature of a tablet is the screen. It's the largest component of the design, and has the most impact on the experience. If there was a single point of failure, that's the one to bet on. Android, likewise, has not been able to compete in the tablet market... even less so after the Retina iPad. Apple has, unfortunately, set a very high mark for competition. I had just purchased an Asus eeePad Transformer Prime, the top of the line Android tablet, right before the Retina iPad... I immediately sold it, for a loss, and switched.
  - cryptoz 14y ago
    > The dominating feature of a tablet is the screen. It's the largest component of the design, and has the most impact on the experience. If there was a single point of failure, that's the one to bet on. I disagree with all my heart, soul, brain and everything in the universe. The dominating feature of a tablet is the software. > Android, likewise, has not been able to compete in the tablet market.. [citation needed]. Android has been slow to pick up but is slowly commanding more and more of the market. Android started from behind on tablets but is working to catch up; i.e., they're competing. > Apple has, unfortunately, set a very high mark for competition. I would consider that fortunate, not unfortunate. When is a high bar for competition a bad thing?! > I had just purchased an Asus eeePad Transformer Prime, the top of the line Android tablet, right before the Retina iPad... I immediately sold it, for a loss, and switched. That's fine. I find the screen to be the least important part of a tablet. I'd take 800x600 running Android any day over a high res iPad. You and I are different people with different preferences. The market is made up of many people like us, and the tablets that fit the most of us the best will do the best in the market. You cannot take your personal preference and impose it on the market. You will be wrong.
    - gfosco 14y ago
      When your phone has 1280x720 native resolution, it's a little hard to accept the same resolution on a tablet.

by gfosco 14y ago

cryptoz 14y ago

You're missing the point that there isn't a single point that will cause a tablet to fail in the market. If it doesn't have a great screen, most people won't care (AT ALL). Those who do care won't buy it. If it doesn't have a great screen, costs a fortune, has no features and no apps, then it's DOA. Pointing to a single feature and saying "this is the only thing the market cares about" is silly and rarely a useful metric to look at.

gfosco 14y ago
The dominating feature of a tablet is the screen. It's the largest component of the design, and has the most impact on the experience. If there was a single point of failure, that's the one to bet on. Android, likewise, has not been able to compete in the tablet market... even less so after the Retina iPad. Apple has, unfortunately, set a very high mark for competition. I had just purchased an Asus eeePad Transformer Prime, the top of the line Android tablet, right before the Retina iPad... I immediately sold it, for a loss, and switched.
- cryptoz 14y ago
  > The dominating feature of a tablet is the screen. It's the largest component of the design, and has the most impact on the experience. If there was a single point of failure, that's the one to bet on. I disagree with all my heart, soul, brain and everything in the universe. The dominating feature of a tablet is the software. > Android, likewise, has not been able to compete in the tablet market.. [citation needed]. Android has been slow to pick up but is slowly commanding more and more of the market. Android started from behind on tablets but is working to catch up; i.e., they're competing. > Apple has, unfortunately, set a very high mark for competition. I would consider that fortunate, not unfortunate. When is a high bar for competition a bad thing?! > I had just purchased an Asus eeePad Transformer Prime, the top of the line Android tablet, right before the Retina iPad... I immediately sold it, for a loss, and switched. That's fine. I find the screen to be the least important part of a tablet. I'd take 800x600 running Android any day over a high res iPad. You and I are different people with different preferences. The market is made up of many people like us, and the tablets that fit the most of us the best will do the best in the market. You cannot take your personal preference and impose it on the market. You will be wrong.
  - gfosco 14y ago
    When your phone has 1280x720 native resolution, it's a little hard to accept the same resolution on a tablet.