get ready for the tribuneTab

[OBLAMA2009]

it looks like its going to be almost free

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/08/09/tribune.tablet/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7

 

[SunnyD]

There's no such thing as FREE.

Tribune aims to offer the tablet for free, or at a highly subsidized price, to people who agree to sign up for extended subscriptions to one of its papers and possibly a wireless-data plan with a partner cellular carrier, said five people briefed on the project.

Emphasis mine... because... especially if the latter is true, you KNOW you're paying about 3x what the hardware itself is worth. Even with markup.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Free means they are going to pick the cheapest hardware they can find. As SunnyD pointed out. They aren't doing this out of the kindness of their black hearts. They are doing it because there is a way to make money off of you with it.

 

[Mopetar]

I also have a feeling it will be heavily locked down. After all, they probably wouldn't want to have people reading their competitors' organs.