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Great looking product - they'll have a hard time out-marketing Apple though. This seems like a market where second place is as good as dead. Good luck to them.
by eli_s 16y ago
Great looking product - they'll have a hard time out-marketing Apple though. This seems like a market where second place is as good as dead.
Good luck to them.
As a side note - there's at least a billion dollars to be made by the first company that develops a fingerprint/smudge free screen - every used iphone i've seen looks gross
Also 1080p on a screen that small is v.nice. The high DPI should make for a nice ebook reader.
- blizkreeg 16y agoThe iPad/iPhone is frankly too expensive in the Indian market. The market is huge though. Their price point in India should be much lower than the iPad's and that should give them an advantage. Internationally, that's a different story altogether.
- eli_s 16y agoI don't see how their price point can be lower since they are using commodity components. Their contribution is the software+hardware combo. In fact they will probably never come even close to competing on price. Hardware is a tricky game and most is sold at below production cost e.g. consoles and also I imagine the iPod. This loss is recouped through software licensing or in Apple's case the app store. This probably wont be an option for these guys since they are building on an open platform.
- eavc 16y agoBut they do gain a substantial savings for not having to incur any licensing or development costs on the OS.
- infinite8s 16y agoYes, but if they are selling the hardware pretty close to cost they will not make much money.
- wmf 16y agoThe screen is 1024x600.
- CrazedGeek 16y agoIt'll play 1080p content, but not at 1080p (unless you're using HDMI) - the screen resolution is only 1024*600, which is lower than even 720p.
- eli_s 16y agoOops I read '1080p Full HD video playback' as 'has a full HD screen' - wishful thinking maybe :)