For too long,
tablet makers thought that providing «good enough» would be... good enough.
Not exact matches
I
think this is a net negative for most other
tablet makers, since Amazon is essentially flooding the market.
And lest you
think its a digicam that's being talked about, the Lattice is a
tablet pc with a 10.1 inch screen from
makers Innoversal.
Convertible
tablets have never been too popular though the IdeaPad YOGA could give other notebook
makers something to
think about.
Actually, I was
thinking that they could have avoided hardware entirely, but you're right in that they could have stuck with E-ink Nooks and kept signing
tablet makers as partners (and ereader
makers, for that matter).
Sharp's choice of LCD over the grey - ish e-paper screens used in e-readers isn't a surprise — it's one of the world's major LCD
makers — but that choice and the Android operating system could see some consumers
thinking of them more as
tablet PCs.
That's why I
think Amazon and Barnes & Noble are both going to sell millions of their Android - based 7 - inch
tablets in the coming months: something no other Android
tablet -
maker has done yet.
Acer, once
thought to be more successful among Android
tablet makers, cut its 2011 goals in half to where it may ship at most three million Iconia Tabs all year.
I
think that's the point: that partnering with other providers will mean either higher prices for the Fire, or something that the other
tablet makers could get a cut on.
It certainly feels like Microsoft is pushing the idea of its covers as a second surface for interaction with a
tablet (
think Courier), and it's something that some other device
makers have tried in the past, but nobody has really conquered.
Many smartphone
makers don't
think that a lot of people are going to go out and shoot a lot of pictures with their
tablets — though there are a good number that do.