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nook color is $250 (sold at a loss, but available nontheless) xoom is $600 Archos 70 and 101 are $300 notion ink is $425 I call shenaningans
by nazgulnarsil 16y ago
nook color is $250 (sold at a loss, but available nontheless)
xoom is $600
Archos 70 and 101 are $300
notion ink is $425
I call shenaningans
- gtech 16y agoThis. I call bullshit as well, apple didn't invent a new market; they used fantastic marketing and took advantage of a gigantic fanboy base.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoFacts don't matter. This is a new article of faith for Apple fans. Some Apple commentators still think that all Android phones cost the same as the iPhone because of Apple's magical supply chain. In reality, the competitors are delivering more raw hardware, at a lower price than Apple, mostly via building from generic, mass-produced, commodity parts. Clearly the same is true in tablets. Ironically Apple's true advantage, that it can deliver a better end-user experience per unit of hardware power, by clever holistic hardware/software/product/ecosystem design is pretty much the opposite of this new theory, and Apple increasingly finds itself in a tech arms race that it doesn't want to be in. It wouldn't surpise me if Apple conceded the high-end hardware in both tablets and phones this year to better pad its margins on devices that are expensive yet middling in raw power, instead focussing on user experience issues like battery life.
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- nhangen 16y agoAre you really comparing a Nook to the iPad?
- nazgulnarsil 16y agofeatures that someone never uses aren't really a selling point.
- nhangen 16y agosuch as?
- nazgulnarsil 16y agoyou're the one touting the ipad. whatfeatures does it have that I can't do on a rooted nook?