&gt; There&#x27;s not enough demand to make them competitive in price-performance.<p>There does not need to be demand: Steve Jobs (in)famously said that where there was no market, &quot;create one&quot;.<p>I for one would absolutely love to be able to buy an illumos-powered A4-sized tablet which ran a SPARC V9 instruction set, plugged into a docking station, and worked with a wireless keyboard and mouse to be used as a workstation when I&#x27;m not walking around with my UNIX server in hand. Very much akin to Apple Computer&#x27;s iPad Pro (or whatever they call it, I don&#x27;t remember, nor is that really relevant).<p>But the most important point was, and still is, and always will be: it has to cost as much as the competition, <i>or less</i>. <i>Sun Microsystems</i> would just not accept that, no matter how much I tried to explain and reason with people there: &quot;talk to the pricing committee&quot;. <i>What does that even mean?!?</i> Was the pricing committee composed of mute, deaf and blind people who were not capable of seeing that PC-buckets were eating Sun&#x27;s lunch, or what?