> It also comes with 100 mb free data per month plan.
If that's true then it is actually the real revolution here in my mind. For non-entertainment purposes a tablet is just a window onto the internet. It doesn't really matter how you get to the internet, but the minute you can your world expands a thousand fold. Suddenly giving millions (or tens or even hundreds of millions) of underprivileged people constant, always available internet access is a huge disruption.
That's true. I mean imagine for rural farmers how revolutionary it would be just to go on a weather website and be able to see that it's not supposed to frost within a couple days after they plant.
If that's true then it is actually the real revolution here in my mind. For non-entertainment purposes a tablet is just a window onto the internet. It doesn't really matter how you get to the internet, but the minute you can your world expands a thousand fold. Suddenly giving millions (or tens or even hundreds of millions) of underprivileged people constant, always available internet access is a huge disruption.