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Google's IPad Killer: Cost

  • Scoble, Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:08 PM
With the help of TV manufacturer Vizio, Google is all but guaranteed to take over the tablet market, insists tech blogger Robert Scoble. How? Slated to hit U.S. shelves by late July, Vizio's Android-supported will cost just $350 compared to the $500 Apple charges for an iPad. "There are a whole range of uses that don't need an iPad, but need a good tablet," Scoble explains.

"For instance, let's say you are outfitting a school with tablets and all you need is a good web browser at a very low cost? Vizio wins here. Apple doesn't." That's right, "This is how Android will take over the market share battle in tablets," asserts Scoble. "There are more of these uses than the ones people use iPads for. After all, how many schools need tablets? A whole lot."

Adds Scoble: "Thanks to this single tablet I can now see how Android is going to get the market share numbers it needs to get developers excited. But don't call it an iPad competitor, OK? At least not until there are a ton of great tablet-based apps, which there aren't today."

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