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["Mitchell Reese" <mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I love this concept...

Mitchell

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brian mullan <bmullan.mail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Why not target a favorite distro to a couple of the most popular existing
>tablets
>
>Low-priced media tablets showed tremendous sales growth in 2011, with an
>estimated 7.5 million units combined from *Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
>*
>iHS found that tablets from those two companies accounted for 11 percent of
>the TOTAL tablet
>market<http://www.isuppli.com/Display-Materials-and-Systems/News/Pages/Apples-Toughest-Competition-in-the-Fourth-Quarter-Tablet-Market-Was-Apple.aspx>.
>
>
>B&N and Amazon's Nook/Kindle tables rapid market-share grab didn’t hurt
>Apple iPads sales but it did appear to hold back sales of other Android
>tablets.
>
>I own a Nook Tablet and its hw specs include OMAP4 dual core, IPS displays,
>graphics hw accel, wifi bgn, bluetooth, 1G ram, 16G internal storage,
>supports usb, 32GB uSSD, no camera or HDMI.
>
>I'd love to get a native linux onto this tablet which is great hw for $249
>with Ebay happening to have a sale of new from B&N for just $200 through
>this weekend.
>
>Canonical's ARM work has really accelerated over the past year, work with
>Linaro.org's ARM effort and I think they are going to support OMAP4 as one
>target.
>
>Why not focus and target the most popular existing market leaders...  Nook,
>and Kindle Tablets and maybe Samsung and/or ASUS.
>
>Those tablets are all popular for a reason... price, quality of components,
>hackability (Nooks are great at this), or hw specs... sometimes its just
>because of the OS (android v3.x versus v4.x).
>
>HW manufacturing is expensive even if its outsourced for any new tablet.
>
>Why not build Distro support for what could be an existing community of
>potential tablet users and enable others to just go buy one of those and
>install linux easily ?
>
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