[Haiku Guy]

Apple creates a device, the iPad, that would have been beyond the dreams of science fiction only ten years ago.

Now, a few short years later, there are dozens of competitors, looking to gain market share by releasing similar or superior devices, at lower prices.

Now the Indians are looking to market a tablet computer that will sell for less than fifty bucks.

So the cost of a tablet computer, which did not exist in 2001, has gone from 20 hours turning a wrench to 10, to five, and soon to two.

But the US Capitalist System has “never worked”, don’tcha know...

[PissAndVinegar]

“Apple creates a device, the iPad, that would have been beyond the dreams of science fiction only ten years ago.”

Not quite - SciFi thought of it over 30 yrs ago:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/apple-ipad-samsung-galaxy-stanley-kubrick-showed-tablet/story?id=14387499

“So the cost of a tablet computer, which did not exist in 2001,”

Yes they did, Microsoft had one....

Microsoft was pioneering Tablet PCs long before Apple:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_computer#History

[6SJ7]

So the cost of a tablet computer, which did not exist in 2001, has gone from 20 hours turning a wrench to 10, to five, and soon to two. But the US Capitalist System has “never worked”, don’tcha know...

The Bamster's version of a tablet computer in his "perfect" socialist system...

[Daffynition]

[itsahoot]

So the cost of a tablet computer, which did not exist in 2001,

They didn't exist because no one wanted one, I was told that repeatedly because they were not a computer so what on earth would you do with it. :)