why do you have to post something 3 times?
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here is an article written in
Sept of 2012.
http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/15/hardware-is-dead/
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the hardware is approaching giveaway status
you are paying for snob appeal.
Snobs can afford it, so why are you complaining?
No... Again you FAIL TO UNDERSTAND. Snob appeal has NOTHING to do with it. I pay for USEFULNESS. That $45 tablet, that hardware, is useless because it doesn't have an ecosystem behind it that WORKS!!!! It is an unintuitive slab of junk that will wind up in the junk drawer next to the ZUNE and other also rans. There is a reason why iPads and iPhones account for over 85% of the mobile traffic on the Internet. . . It's because they are useful! Ergo, they get used.