“China’s Communist Party members can now carry a tablet PC to verify identification cards, read the blogs of cadres and manage state-owned firms without fretting that using a bourgeois Apple Inc. iPad will ruin their street cred,” Melanie Lee reports for Reuters.
“Enter RedPad Number One, an Android-based tablet computer filled with software applications (apps) catered to a party official’s every need for control,” Lee reports. “Delivered in a decadent leather case for 9,999 yuan, it is twice the price of Apple’s most expensive iPad 2.”
Lee reports, “The eye-popping price has China’s microblogs alight with chatter over just why this device is so expensive and who is footing the bill.”
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