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I'm surprised at the swooning over the form factor, not just from Gruber but the rest of the press, including big-fingered die-hards like Darymple. We've been deploying tablets in the field since the Panasonic days. iPad replaced them, but not before we tried every alternative as they've arrived. When IPad hit we went 100% web-based. (bit of background: after getting on the tablet train, we buy anything requested, support it 100%, and let users decide what works. ≈93% iPad, 7% trying out Nexus 7 today, 5 requests for Nexus 10 FWIW) Playbook, Xoom, TouchPad, Nexus 7 and more were duds. Big complaint was "too small", browser performance (and bugs) came next. Build quality was so bad pretty much all were far more expensive than IPads anyway. I've got 3 dead Nexus 7s on my desk and it seems like they just came out. If they've built a "perfect size" tablet with a good browser and pro-sumer build quality, well, 20% lower acquisition cost would make me happy. But happy folks in the field is better, and that's where we stand to see a shift. Edit: Surprised everyone is so ready to ditch the 10" for 8" |