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Originally Posted by Azure
Either way, its way to costly considering the Google Tablet will probably come out soon, and it will probably cost less than $250, and will do everything that the Microsoft Tablet will do.
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What an odd thing to say - we have almost zero information on the Google Tablet, its feature set, or its price. I could just as easily say you know what? Microsoft Surface 2.0 is going to cost less than $200, and do everything Google Tablet does. And I hear iPad 7" is going to cost $149, and do everything all three do. And the Samsung Galaxy Bob, coming in the fall, will pay you to use it!
I can tell you two things Google Tablet won't do - run "real" Office, nor run the same Metro apps as your MS phone and desktop/laptop OS.
I can also tell you that there is not a single sub-$400 tablet (that isn't being fire-saled to get them out of warehouses) that is competitive in this generation and can reasonably expect to win market share. Not from RIM, Asus, Acer, HP, Toshiba, Apple, or Samsung. Nobody is making anything of note at the $250 price point, and to expect Google to do it flies in the face of this evidence.
I hope Google comes out of the gate with a killer product - having three high end tablet offerings will do wonders for both pricing and innovation. But to think they can undercut the current market by almost 50% and retain the quality and features of the current generation is a specious claim.