“Here’s the thing. The iPad has been on the market for about a year — the iPad 2 for a couple of weeks — and most of the competition is still only talking about devices it will ship someday… that still show no sign of giving the iPad any real rivalry,” Frommer writes. “Where are the iPad killers?”
“The big picture is that everyone is still chasing Apple, and that no one has displayed even a hint of something that is remarkably better than the iPad, significantly less expensive than the iPad, or a well-thought-out product that most mainstream buyers would ever prefer over an iPad,” Frommer writes. “We’d love to see a real tablet competition. How long are we going to have to wait?”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Who needs “real tablet competition” when Apple already makes the best tablet by far at the lowest price? If not consumers, then who stands to benefit from this oh-so-lusted-after “real tablet competition?” Oh, wait, we know: The so-called competitors of Apple’s and their resellers who really, really want to dupe people out of their money (some of whom, like Staples, are so desperate to screw their own customers that they even go so far as to claim a “great selection from all the top brands” even though they do not carry Apple iPads). Oh, yeah, and some of the tech media, especially those who can’t seem to produce enough spec sheet “shootouts.” And, of course, the market manipulators for whom even the illusion of “real tablet competition” can be a useful tool.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Fred Mertz" for the heads up.]
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