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Tablets are getting cheap enough that branded tablets are going to be more of a common thing, especially for like trade show gifts and things. Remember how peop

Tablets are getting cheap enough that branded tablets are going to be more of a common thing, especially for like trade show gifts and things. Remember how people used to distribute (or still do) software/presentations/sales materials via USB sticks or CD's? At some point it will be cost effective to give away a tablet with your stuff preloaded on there and with your company branding on it. I can see this happening with custom enterprise type apps that have a tablet component. Take a sub-$100 tablet, get your brand on it and have it load into your app by default or something. Sort of like kiosk tablets.

squozzer 13y ago
Roger that. AutoZone uses an iPad in their stores for yeoman duties. And today I checked into a potential employer's office on a kiosk tablet. Some other vertical markets -- car diagnostics, tuners.
- xerophtye 13y ago
  In Pakistan, a lot of the classier places use tablets as menus.
al2o3cr 13y ago
"I can see this happening with custom enterprise type apps that have a tablet component. Take a sub-$100 tablet, get your brand on it and have it load into your app by default or something." Given how much "custom enterprise-type apps" cost to make, I can't imagine anybody squealing about the price of decent tablets to put them on. Picking the $38/unit El Cheapos is like deciding to use only bargain-basement folding chairs at your $200/plate restaurant...