Microsoft tablet will bomb

[Niri Te]

Originally Posted by EywaBlessMe

Fanboy? Yes. Uneducated? Hardly

Yes I know that Apple got their inspiration from others, but BE HONEST. Any mp3 player in an iPod. Am I right? Who created the market, and then used that market to open iTunes? Yes Xerox may have invented the GUI, but didn't do anything with it, and now teeters near bankruptcy. Palm may have invented the smartphone, but is gone. Apple is the most valuable company in the world. All smartphones are iPhones, and all tablets are iPads. All of the other companies wait to see Apple prove a market for some clever idea, then jump in with cheap imitations.

All that may be true, there are MANY people out here that have not much money, and so for THEM, the "Cheap Imitations" will be the best that they can hope for. If ma oeya lora Yawnetu and I change our priorities, we could afford the 500 dollar apiece and up iPads, but we prefer our antique aircraft, and paying cash as we go, building our Hanger Home. We are the lucky ones, for US it is a CHOICE, now imagine the divorced mother of two with two minimum wage jobs, and no credit. If she is LUCKY, she can scrape together the money over six months to get hooked to the net for certain necessities that used to be available offline that no longer are. I realize the above is an extreme case, but there ARE such people, and for them, the "Cheap Imitations" are a Godsend. There is a definite need for them in today's economy.
Niri Te