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Re:TechCrunch Tablet makes an early debut by smidwap on Friday April 10, 2009 @12:27AM (#555698)
Your thoughts parallel mine. At the very least, if this idea is so brilliant, why can't a company like Dell or Apple begin mass-producing these little tikes? Even with patents and all that legal mumbo-jumbo, I'm sure they could find something to sell. Makes me wonder if this product really will sell, or if the biggies just lost out on an early opportunity.
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Re:TechCrunch Tablet makes an early debut by rms on Friday April 10, 2009 @12:37AM (#555707)
>why can't a company like Dell or Apple begin mass-producing these little tikes?

If these tablets sell, they certainly will.

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Re:TechCrunch Tablet makes an early debut by whacked_new on Friday April 10, 2009 @01:56AM (#555775)
I was wondering if big companies were unable to produce these things cost effectively due to tie-ins and bundle deals or whatnot.

Oh, perhaps one thing is the requirement to fork a dev team to maintain a niche OS... methinks that's one of the biggest reasons?

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Re:TechCrunch Tablet makes an early debut by fizx on Friday April 10, 2009 @04:43AM (#555857)
They could be afraid of cannibalizing sales of their more expensive gizmos.
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