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Originally Posted by red-beard
You are the one who is confused. This is not a "betamax" situation. External keyboards, mice, voice recognition, etc, are features. Comparing a Slate to an iPad is Apples to Oranges (ha!). An iPad is a friggen giant iPod. A Slate is a tiny, full function PC. Sometimes a keyboard and mouse are nice to use. Most of the time, I can sit on the sofa and surf with the touch screen.
My issue is you are paying the same, or more, for less funtionality. I'm glad I waited for the Slate.
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You miss the point. Most consumers who want a tablet don't want a full function PC. They want a friggin big iPod. They had netbooks available for years and stayed away in droves.
The Galaxy Tab prices were cut earlier this month, and the flood of new tablets is a lot like the flood of Android phones. Got a Verizon "preview" of 4 new 4G phones at CES, and all had something to call "technically superior" to the iPhone 4. But all their sales will not add up to the iPhone 4's sales. It's Snow White or the Seven Dwarfs. The tablet market is similar to the smartphone market.
But back to the original Tab vs. iPad comparison, it is exactly Beta vs VHS. Similar features with arguable technical differences that don't register on the scale of consumer perception except with a few fanboys.
Now, you and I are not typical consumers and things like USB ports probably count for more with us. But we also drive evolved VW Beetles and 'normal' consumers don't understand us.
I realize that a lot of folks were outside the consumer electronics industry when the Beta/VHS war was on, and don't realize that the 'Beta is better' urban legend came primarily from Sony
PR, which pointed out critically important differences like the smaller cassette size and that Beta required the tape to be pulled a shorter distance out of the cassette to be read. It was effective enough to bolster the Beta stalwarts, but not persuasive to Joe Sixpack.