jim said:
I think there is some argument for the Android Tabs being the machine of the future.
really?
The Samsung Galaxy Tab is getting there
not really. have you read _all_ of the reviews?
as is the ebook reader software available on the Androids.
software shouldn't be hard. unless you have to work around a million different permutations of the hardware, a la android... i'm not saying it can't be done... but i _can_ say that it ain't easy. and software shouldn't be hard.
But $600 is pretty pricy for a tablet reader [that actually supports the Android Marketplace] vs. $150 for a netbook offering more storage and functionality.
the price-difference indicates to me that you're comparing two different products, with different expectations and so forth...
Now, if only one *could* tear off the keyboard.
unless your operating system was built to be touch-oriented from the ground up, it really is a lot more difficult than deleting a keyboard. and that's why apple is now moving _toward_ the place where its i.o.s. can operate the mac. but they aren't there yet. and the copycats are -- as you would expect -- even farther back... -bowerbird
software shouldn't be hard. unless you have to work around a million different permutations of the hardware, a la android...
The only android permutation that I see as being "hard" are perhaps the touch variations of capacitive vs resistive vs no-touch. Certainly screen size / resolution differences shouldn't be an obstacle to modern software design. In the reader/tablet/cellphone world it seems the "hard" part is for monopolistic vendors to avoid their own temptations to unreasonably lock-down their product in the hopes of tying in sales. Of course it doesn't work that way, with customers simply "routing around damage" and moving to vendors who do not unreasonably lock down their product -- even if products that aren't "locked down" do end up being kind of messy in that then software vendors can offer any product they want, including products that are not well implemented nor well thought out. But the market weeds out poorly designed software, in practice, because most people end up not buying bad software.
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