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23 sep. 2010

“This Official Samsung Galaxy Tab Video Demo Is A Nine Minute, Must-Watch Snooze Fest”

That’s really, really nice. The form factor is gonna be advantageous for many uses, and the device will clearly benefit from being subsidized by carriers.

I still don’t expect (or want) Apple to release a smaller version of the iPad (because the strength of iOS devices is in the App Store, and segmenting the hardware platform would be highly detrimental to the quality of third-party apps), but if there’s one lesson they’re gonna have to take from the burgeoning competition, it is to swallow their pride and get a subsidy deal with AT&T. They were already screwed out of the unlimited data plan anyway; might as well bite the bullet for the sake of being competitive.

Back to the form factor: Samsung is designing its product line in a very different way than Apple sees it (which, mind you, is the only viable way to compete against that juggernaut). It makes sense to own an iPhone and an iPad, and that doesn’t preclude getting a notebook on top of that, for more serious work. On the other hand, it would be absurd to have both the Galaxy Tab and a smartphone; this is clearly designed to complement a cheap featurephone (or no phone at all), with a laptop on the side. And that’s not a bad plan at all.

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