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The people who are tricked into buying these phones through that marketing are beta testers.

Give it a couple of revisions and you'll see products that you actually want to buy.

Compare those pen based tablets that Bill Gates was demoing in IIRC 2002 to the first ipad.



Some, possibly many of the people who bought these phones were totally willing beta-testers. Some people are just excited about a new piece of technology and have the means to drop upwards of $1500 on it just for kicks.


Tablet PCs were much better pen enabled devices than the first iPad. It took years before apple had the pencil.




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