Why do manufacturers of ultra-cheap +Android tablets not "get it" about docking? While I can get a perfectly good 10" ICS tablet for USD$250 (and I expect that will drop to $150 inside six months) it seems that to get a model which supports some kind of dock will cost about twice that.
This is a fundamental issue that the budget manufacturers just really don't seem to get.
It's not just about making it easy to charge the device, but about locating somewhere that it can "belong" in a kitchen, or a car, or a stereo system. A way that you can "put it down" and it will be charging, connected and usably visible without needing to fiddle with half a dozen varying plugs attacking from different dimensions.
The Sony, Asus and Samsung tablets seem to have figured this out, so is there some weird patent that limits the ability of things like the Newsmy tablets from being able to do this? Or is it just the lack of imagination from their manufacturers?
This was the question I asked all of the tablet manufacturers I saw at CeBIT in February 2011. None of them had an answer. All but one of them looked at me like I was from another planet. The situation hasn't changed, and yet their more successful brethren seem to have figured it out just fine. Odd.