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Fusion Garage Going After Lower-Price Tablet Market
nk497 writes "Fusion Garage has dropped the price of its follow-up to the JooJoo tablet, cutting the Grid10's price by $200 to $299 in the US and £259 in the UK. Outspoken CEO Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan has clearly been following the HP TouchPad fire sale, and noticed the importance of price when it comes to taking on Apple's iPad. He said there's no point in buying 'a poor carbon copy' of the Apple tablet for the same price. 'At $499, why would you buy — it's like going to China and buying a [fake] Louis Vuitton bag, at the same price as the real Louis Vuitton bags. It doesn't make sense, when you know it's a rip-off product,' he said."
"What exactly are those compelling advantages?"
The App Store, which android does not support.
Relative lack of malware. And no, just because you can name ONE iPad malware doesn't mean the situation is the same as Android's wild-west free for all.
Apple's polish and ease of use. I've never seen someone yet say that they think Android works better than IOS.
Dude, just admit it: the iPad has 90%+ of the tablet market, and there is a reason for this. Just because YOU don't see the reasons, don't mean they aren't there. SLashdotters never understand this: they are not representative of the majority of the computer using public, and what THEY want doesn't reflect what the vast majority want.
The iPad owns the tablet market, and what you claim could only be true if that was not the case. But it demonstrably is the case, so I don't know why you bother to argue that the iPad doesn't provide compelling advantages.