Hold on...
Ok - disclaimer first - I work for Cisco in the Collaboration R&D group and have been using a DX80 for some time now.
A few things about the way these products are being portrayed is a little misleading IMHO... The DX 70 is a 14" touch interface and the DX80 is a 23" touch interface (both native 1920x1080) and supports full 1080p 30 video encode and decode (i.e. a standards based SIP video call). They are fully featured Cisco phones (multiple lines, bluetooth integration to make your smartphone a line as well, native Jabber IM and Presence, native WebEx client all built-in).
The DX80 also acts as your primary or secondary monitor if you choose to use it as such and can still be a high end personal telepresence system, a tool for accessing whatever apps make sense and a PC screen (touch enabled if you so desire) all at the same time.
These products are not consumer devices. These fit into the same sort of space we have been selling the EX60 and EX90 for a number of years - high-end personal TelePresence - but at a substantially lower price (less than one third of the EX90 price) and with significant new features.
Are execs going to use just the tablet features and throw away their laptops? No way. Not as far as I can tell. But the CxOs of Fortune 500 companies I have spoken to about these products all want them on their desk and for their entire management chain...
As for the Scandafornian thing... well, in 2009 Cisco did buy the company I worked for in Oslo, Norway (Tandberg) and that is where the DX80 Industrial Design was done - along with the US components as well - that kinda makes it work :-)
Of course - all my own opinions - flame me as required :-)
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