I love this concept... Mitchell
Curious Mail - Sent via Linux brian mullan <bmullan.m...@gmail.com> wrote: >Why not target a favorite distro to a couple of the most popular existing >tablets > >Low-priced media tablets showed tremendous sales growth in 2011, with an >estimated 7.5 million units combined from *Amazon and Barnes & Noble. >* >iHS found that tablets from those two companies accounted for 11 percent of >the TOTAL tablet >market<http://www.isuppli.com/Display-Materials-and-Systems/News/Pages/Apples-Toughest-Competition-in-the-Fourth-Quarter-Tablet-Market-Was-Apple.aspx>. > > >B&N and Amazon's Nook/Kindle tables rapid market-share grab didn’t hurt >Apple iPads sales but it did appear to hold back sales of other Android >tablets. > >I own a Nook Tablet and its hw specs include OMAP4 dual core, IPS displays, >graphics hw accel, wifi bgn, bluetooth, 1G ram, 16G internal storage, >supports usb, 32GB uSSD, no camera or HDMI. > >I'd love to get a native linux onto this tablet which is great hw for $249 >with Ebay happening to have a sale of new from B&N for just $200 through >this weekend. > >Canonical's ARM work has really accelerated over the past year, work with >Linaro.org's ARM effort and I think they are going to support OMAP4 as one >target. > >Why not focus and target the most popular existing market leaders... Nook, >and Kindle Tablets and maybe Samsung and/or ASUS. > >Those tablets are all popular for a reason... price, quality of components, >hackability (Nooks are great at this), or hw specs... sometimes its just >because of the OS (android v3.x versus v4.x). > >HW manufacturing is expensive even if its outsourced for any new tablet. > >Why not build Distro support for what could be an existing community of >potential tablet users and enable others to just go buy one of those and >install linux easily ? > >-- >Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet >Post to : ubuntu-tablet@lists.launchpad.net >Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet >More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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