Android Tablet

[Richard Pieri]

On Apr 6, 2011, at 10:32 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> 
> Not completely.  Game console is closer then microwave oven. They want
> the app store model.  No one would be buying these devices if they
> were the equivalent of a TV, radio, or cable set top box.  (Varied
> media content, but functionality completely controlled by the device
> vendor.)

Tablets are, in the end, consumer black boxes.  Push a button (or an icon on the screen) and something wonderful happens without any knowledge or understanding of what the button does or how that wonderful something works.  That's what I mean when I refer to tablets and consoles as appliances.  And while the app store model doesn't apply to the microwave oven, take a look at some of the other appliances around.  A state of the art sewing machine can be programmed -- with memory cards -- to do pretty much everything but load the thread and feed the cloth under the foot.  That's not much different from iPad and Xoom.

--Rich P.