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Re:The $35 indian tablet isn't vaporware by wccrawford on Friday August 13, 2010 @08:47AM (#1600767)
If it doesn't exist yet, it's vaporware until it does. Any time a device claims things that it hasn't yet actually produced, that's vaporware.
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Re:The $35 indian tablet isn't vaporware by cryptoz on Friday August 13, 2010 @01:34PM (#1601558)
I disagree. There are discussions of Ubuntu 11.04 on mailing lists, but absolutely nothing has been produced yet.

Are you suggesting that Ubuntu 11.04 is vaporware until development starts? WTF?

Edit: Vaporware is a product that we were told was going to come out, but didn't. Vaporware isn't used to describe products that aren't even supposed to be released yet!

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Re:The $35 indian tablet isn't vaporware by ww520 on Friday August 13, 2010 @02:23PM (#1601753)
Vaporware is based on track record. I guess the Ubuntu team has a history of delivering what they promised.
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Re:The $35 indian tablet isn't vaporware by tmcw on Friday August 13, 2010 @09:02AM (#1600780)
So, this article is a government minister telling you that it isn't vaporware? And ending with the words "Never be sceptical of the government."?

Yeah...

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Re:The $35 indian tablet isn't vaporware by GiraffeNecktie on Friday August 13, 2010 @07:20AM (#1600628)
Of the $35, which equates to INR 1500, INR 750 is government subsidy.

So it's really a $70 tablet. That's a lot more plausible given that you can already buy Chinese-built Android tablets for less than $100.

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Re:The $35 indian tablet isn't vaporware by bartl on Friday August 13, 2010 @08:20AM (#1600714)
My calculation ($35 + half that) comes to a figure of about $50.
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Re:The $35 indian tablet isn't vaporware by Indyan on Friday August 13, 2010 @08:31AM (#1600736)
Your calculation is correct. If the tablet makes it to the retail market, it will cost around $50.
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Re:The $35 indian tablet isn't vaporware by whatajoke on Friday August 13, 2010 @11:12AM (#1601115)
You are reading it wrong. It means that the end customer (student) will get it at 50% subsidy, which will be 17.5$
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Re:The $35 indian tablet isn't vaporware by GiraffeNecktie on Friday August 13, 2010 @02:20PM (#1601737)
You're right. My bad.
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Re:The $35 indian tablet isn't vaporware by edge17 on Friday August 13, 2010 @11:56AM (#1601251)
Someone was telling me that typically hardware markup is 3x-4x from the bill of material to the retail price, but in India it's more like 5x-6x because of customs and duty overheads. Anyone care to comment?
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Re:The $35 indian tablet isn't vaporware by GiraffeNecktie on Friday August 13, 2010 @02:25PM (#1601759)
That doesn't seem right. Apple is a high margin manufacturer and you often hear of a 50% markup on the BoM for their products http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/infrastructure/18592/app...

The markup on commodity computers (and I'd put Android tablets in that category) is very low.

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Re:The $35 indian tablet isn't vaporware by ravichhabra on Sunday September 12, 2010 @12:30PM (#1683935)
It is ironic that the Indian Tablet would run an OS that does not support it's languages (Devanagari, Tamil, Telugu, Gurumukhi, Bengali, the list goes on). Perhaps they should take on Microsoft's offer of running CE on it for free.
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Re:The $35 indian tablet isn't vaporware by Indyan on Friday August 13, 2010 @08:33AM (#1600741)
Hands-on video of the tablet: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1600740
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