Dell 10-inch Tablet Not Coming Until Fall
Apr. 04, 2011
Since October of last year Dell has been hinting that it would bring out its own tablet product; and in February it announced the pending release of a 10-inch Windows 7-based model. Now it looks like those devices will not be available until the fall - potentially in time to make the back-to-school or holiday shopping seasons, but nearly 2 years after the iPad created, then ran away with, the tablet market.
HP and Asus, among others, have already released Windows 7-powered tablets, and Windows 8, rumored to be coming out in 2012. will apparently be more "tablet friendly" (whatever that means). Predictably, Dell is believed to be preparing a Windows 8 tablet for release around that time as well.
Author's Note: So Microsoft is playing catch-up again. As if we needed another reminder that smart, nimble applications and devices will beat over-lawyered, bloated me-too products every time ("Office 14" anyone?). You heard me, Redmond. Think about what a screw-job it took to drive so many into the waiting arms of Steve Jobs. It's like watching GM implode all over again. First the euphoria. Then the malaise. Then the slow decline. Finally, the anticlimactic death.
P.S. Bill, no matter how many kids you pat condescendingly on the head you're still not going to be remembered as a saint. Will you and your wife go home, already?
