Thread: Will the tablet world change now?
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Originally Posted by Hurrian View Post
Indeed. $1000 would be back to where we started (WinXP tablets that sucked bad).

$500, and a Wacom digitizer running on x86 (even the modern Atoms or AMD APU would be fine) would be the game changer.

$1000 for a pretty piece of hardware is simply not worth it.

And regarding the keyboard, mini-chiclet keyboards suck harder than they already do at less than 13 inches. The Transformer dock style would suit it so much better (plus the extra battery and ports)

Lastly, I think MS telling OEMs (the companies that made them ultra rich now) to sod off is a horrible, horrible idea.

Should MS stop licensing Windows/abandon the whole OEM licensing tier, I think the Year of the Linux Desktop would be pretty near.
$500 way to low. It's almost half the prize of a highend android phone like Iphone or SG3. a low price is not always the right way for a exclusive highend product. Apple's products are great example of that. Almost all products are higher than the competitions, but if you put specs and performance its not better at all.

But the customers gladly paying hugh amount for their products and they are happy so that is the most important.

The price alone is not important, but what you think you get for the price it whats matter. That is also the why apple have so few products in line. The are working with branding and exslusivity and not with prize. Microsoft can have on line of products release every now and then, called surface and let others like nokia cover the the other areas.

Also, micrsoft can release a product were windows 8 run at its best, while others like nokia just have to guess were it runs as well as possible.
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