So the HP Slate 500 will cost $799...
Oops.
And that, my friends, is why Windows tablets are currently doomed to flounder. If you can't even price what amounts to a netbook without a keyboard at a price even vaguely close to an iPad or a Galaxy Tab, you're not even in the modern tablet game.
Before you ask: yes, I think there's a market for conventional tablet PCs. But I think they'll be just that: conventional convertible notebooks. And that category is not only pretty small (it actually shrank from 1.8 million to 1.5 million units between 2008 and 2009), but it's not where the industry is going as a whole.
Also, just to avoid hypocrisy, this post was composed on an iPad.
Oops.
And that, my friends, is why Windows tablets are currently doomed to flounder. If you can't even price what amounts to a netbook without a keyboard at a price even vaguely close to an iPad or a Galaxy Tab, you're not even in the modern tablet game.
Before you ask: yes, I think there's a market for conventional tablet PCs. But I think they'll be just that: conventional convertible notebooks. And that category is not only pretty small (it actually shrank from 1.8 million to 1.5 million units between 2008 and 2009), but it's not where the industry is going as a whole.
Also, just to avoid hypocrisy, this post was composed on an iPad.