On 11-09-05 2:21 PM, August Abolins -> Alan Zisman wrote:

 AZ>> Tim Bajarin has an opinion-piece online at pcmag.com titled
 AZ>> "Is the iPad a Tablet" -

 AZ>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392263,00.asp

 AZ>> that might be worth looking at for this thread.


 AA> "What's in a name? that which we call a rose
 AA> By any other name would smell as sweet."

Yep - I certainly refer to my iPad as a 'tablet'.... but I think the point is that,
for consumers, there's a market for iPads - which is not really being
impacted by the flood of 'tablets' running Android, BLackberry QNX, WebOS,
Windows, etc... and that all those other 'tablets' are competing with one
another for a smaller market - so, for instance, the Toshiba Thrive that JP
is writing about may take market share from Samsung's Galaxy or Motorola's
Xoom, but isn't really stealing customers from the iPad.

Especially since they are all clustered around the iPads' price points. If
the various Android models were priced at $350 (or less) while the iPad is
priced starting at $500 (and up), there might be more competition - the
clamour for HP's models when they were marked down to fire-sale $99/149 was
interesting.

I've looked at a 7" Chinese Android tablet being marketed at
sub-$200... but the reviews were absolutely horrid, so I avoided it.

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