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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Uhh... the company itself admitted to building it according to what they thought the tablet was going to look like. So yes, it is a Chinese iPad knockoff. Also, the iPad is actually an iPhone knockoff, so why do people keep trying to tell me that they copied it from all these other random devices on the internet?
And if you think permanently plugging in a mobile device is "thinking outside the box," then maybe you should get your box examined for carbon monoxide leaks.  |
Right, and if you think that disabling Flash on an internet communications device is thinking outside the box, then more power to you as well. I obviously don't think that that the chinese knockoff is better, because it isn't, but as we see, there's value in something that's ridiculously cheap, maybe you just have to think outside the box to see it.
You couldn't even see that the Asus Netbook Tablet could be used in an "outside the box" manner by converting it to a full time tablet, until the iPad came out and Apple told you how to use it. Any decision that Apple makes is thinking differently in order to create a "whole life device".
How about this?
http://www.tgdaily.com/consumer-elec...a-based-tablet
I think MSI is thinking outside the box by adding connectivity, USB, a camera, multitasking, and flash on their device too. But maybe it was really Apple that was rocking the boat by not including any of it. Or maybe it's part of their planned obselesence where the iPad 1.5 will have flash, then 2.0 will have a camera, then 3.0 will have everything, costing you $500 each time to get it. By then though, the iPud comes out and it's even better.
Basically, I think it's pretty obvious now that there is a niche for a lightweight e-reader type tablet. It's just that the iPad is such a poor implementation, that I don't see how anyone could possibly defend it. Yet, because it's by Apple, legions of people do.