With the iPad making depute, I'm sure a lot of you are excited to develop on a tablet system. I personally don't think the future of the current generation of iPads is too rosey though. There's a number of issues, lack of camera and any kind of usb or card reading input. Content is controlled through app stores and that can be swing or miss to get something in there.
Of course there's competition raising, currently I heard of the JooJoo, which is about a $100usd cheaper then the iPad and has various inputs that the iPad lacks. However its has a special browser based OS so I'm not sure if glbasic can do anything for it. If its based off linux, maybe but glb's staff would know better than I.
Now HP has there own tablet coming out soon, running off Windows 7 with a decent amount of features, camera, and inputs. I can see a lot of nice possibilities for this, cost $50usd less than the cheapest iPad. Now with a window's based tablet you can do a lot more, with lots of other libraries and engines already working for windows. One thing I find most appealing is that the Slate is running of an Intel Atom, and has comparable specs to the netbooks I use in my developments.
As far as I know, all three of these have accelerometer's.
There's is another low-cost tablet pc that's more of detachable netbook, which tablets are just netbook's with touchscreens and no keyboards.
This in mind, I would be thinking that HP could probably sell their tablet cheaper, I'm sure its base cost is less than that of the iPad, which I think is like ~280usd to build. I assume that the Slate probably cost less than 200 to produce, as that's the value of the cheapest comparable netbook, so HP may have a nicer profit margin than Apple.
Just some food for thought.
