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Chubais: Russian tablet compete with iPad

Board Chairman of OAO “Rosnano” Anatoly Chubais admitted that tablet was developed by company computer could not withstand the competition with the iPad. He said this in a conversation with Alexei Navalny in a live TV channel “Rain”.

“This is one example of projects that seemingly have really screwed up. We really are unable to make the tablet. So we did that and it works now, just compete with the iPad, we coincided. But we kept the project, we have kept the technology,” said Chubais.

In 2011, RUSNANO has invested $150 million in the company Plastic Logic, producing flexible displays based “plastic logic”, in honour of which is the company name. It was assumed that the money will be spent on the construction of the plant, which will supply panels for tablets Chubais. The facility would be located in Zelenograd.

In 2012 it became known that the construction was postponed indefinitely, and the company Plastic Logic, in principle, refuses to campaign for the development and production of its own tablet computers and e-readers.

On television Chubais showed popSLATE case with an additional e-ink display. “YotaPhone has received a contract from us are exactly the same screens, the exit in the commercial sphere of the first flexible electronics,” said the head of the company. — And as flexible electronics, from the point of view of most experts, is the point of a giant breakthrough with the wearable electronic gadgets, we believe that this project is now at the start like a rocket”.

Covers popSLATE iPhone sold at a price of $ 130.

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