Slashdot Mirror
Cisco To Challenge iPad With Cius 'Business Tablet'
GMGruman and several other readers noted Cisco's announcement of the forthcoming 7-inch Android-based iPad challenger, the Cius, which "... will offer multiple networking capabilities, keyboard and mouse support, and the ability to do videoconferencing. Cisco says it will cost less than $1,000, or about the same as an iPad. The Cius will come with a front-facing high-definition video camera that can record 720p video at 30 frames per second and a 5-megapixel camera at the back that can capture high-quality video and still images. Users will be able to engage in live video calls [most likely via WebEx] when the tablet is docked or being held. Some units will be available this fall, though general availability is not expected until early 2011."
I would bet everything I could turn to cash that this will fail. As in: Will have the same or less impact on the iPad as mp3 players had on the iPod during the last 10 years.
This isn't news for nerds, this is fantasy capitalism!
"Oh please, please, let this be a robust market!"
"Fuck you. Buy an iPad."
Maybe I'm just getting too old for this shit.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Is Cisco going to make sure it runs only nigger-free code runs on this tablet?
I don't know anyone who's bought a tablet or an iPad. I'll bet Apple has only sold a few hundred iPads with their proprietary OS and software, all to those fanboys. But I'll bet if Apple used OSS, like maybe some kind of Ubuntu tablet OS, they could probably sell thousands.
Wow mod parent hilarious, that moron bought an iPad.
That's all they ever do. Then rename whatever software it runs "IOS." Cisco is a marketing company, not a technology one.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law