John Gruber on a piece from Abdel Ibrahim and Jon Dick about new tablets from Samsung and Sony:
The fact that these tablets are only price competitive with the iPad when they’re bought with a two-year contract is a killer. People aren’t stupid. People hate contracts.
After two years of the iPad, it seems competitors still can’t match Apple’s combination of technology and price. In the words of Mortimer Snerd: “Who’d have thunk it?”