These small touches will separate Epods from its PC industry competitors, Hong believes. Ma believes these partners, as well as distribution partners like Nordstrom's and Macy's, provide opportunities for cobranding and continuing revenue streams down the line. Epods' revenues are based on taking a cut of all transactions which take place on the service, along with advertising fees. Rather, the tablet runs on a RISC processor with 32MB of memory to run applications and surf the Web. The device is tethered to a docking station with a dial-up connection.
Wireless access is planned for the next version of the machine, due out next fall.
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