On 2017-12-03 at 07:57, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/02/2017 01:52 PM, John Hasler wrote: > >> David Wright writes:
>>> what would be the principal use of this device, who would it be >>> aimed at, and what would be the size of its market? >> >> I'd buy one were it cheap enough (it wouldn't be). > > I don't see why its price structure be more than a laptop or > "smartphone". It should be less than a "smartphone" offering similar > compute capability. Supply and demand. Not enough people care about "a device with the physical form factor of a smartphone, which is not a smartphone" for it to be economical to sell such at a price which will not seem exorbitant by comparison with the price of a smartphone. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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