What makes a Tablet, well a Tablet?
A tablet PC or a mobile internet device (MID) has taken the world by storm. Steve Jobs marketing genius and Apple’s larger than life brand made sure that millions of iPads were sold. iPad sales are limited by the supply and not by demand and voila, a new gadget category is born. Ever since Apple launched iPad and ever since competing devices were launched the debate has shifted from “is there market for a tablet?” to “what should be a tablet?”. A lot of tablets were launched and a lot of things were being marketed as a tablets. After Dell Streak, the latest to be marketed as a tablet which is not a tablet is Motorola Quench XT3. The marketing is not exactly coming from Motorola but the traditional media and the new media. If it was for a fledgling blog which is trying to get some juice then I understand. When it comes from Economic Times then we have a problem. Though this mistake is not comparable to plagiarism scandal of India Today’s Arun Poorie, this is no less an offence. Look at
