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I understand the fact about Apple's buying power. But when someone is trying to compete with an established product, you gotta offer something more at some pric
by desigooner 15y ago
I understand the fact about Apple's buying power. But when someone is trying to compete with an established product, you gotta offer something more at some price less to get people to even look at it!
It's going to be interesting to see how the HP Touchpad & Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 do in the next few months. However, the real competition will start when Amazon jumps into the market with their rumored Kal-El tablets later this year.
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoThe dollars don't matter so much. eBay matters is that you are seen providing better value (which may indue cost). Unfortunately, with the WWDC announcements, it really doesn't look like HP has a better value. They need something more to compete if they don't want it to be a race to the bottom with Chinese, Taiwanese, and South Korean vendors.
- stcredzero 15y agoUnfortunately, with the WWDC announcements, it really doesn't look like HP has a better value. For as long as the MS/Windows ecosystem is a going concern, a sufficiently well executed non-Apple tablet will have a market in those who are anti-Apple.
- wisty 15y agoNope, it's not possible to offer more for less. Apple is a "good" monopoly, that passes their saving onto customers. The only way to beat them is to attack from below. Make a tablet that is only good for browsing the web. Maybe add a few cheap features like a camera and GPS, but skimp on expensive features like storage. If you really want to be cool, add some kind of console controls, so teenagers can play games. Maybe even add some sort of social element - allow them to connect to each other through USB, and play arcade games. Or attack some other niche that Apple don't own. You could add a bunch of graphics calculator functions, and target students. Just be careful you don't do anything that a $3 App won't do. Price it at half the price of an iPad, and hope you gain a toehold.
- jmelloy 15y agoI think you're describing the Nook Color and/or Nook.
- tsieling 15y ago>When trying to compete with an established product you gotta offering something more at some price less... Like the iPhone and it's $600 starting price?
- WiseWeasel 15y agoApple created the market for touch-friendly pocket computers. There were no established products in that market.
- dman 15y agoYes the Newton was a great product.
- WiseWeasel 15y agoNewton was stylus-driven.
- dman 15y agoI didnt get the memo which stipulated that you need to use fingers for it to be classified as touch based.
- podperson 15y agoMaybe mouse-driven computers should be considered touch-based too?
- dman 15y agoI believe an interface is touch based if you use an object to touch the screen to interact with the interface. Mice do not have this property. Given the downvotes I imagine people at HN disagree with this notion, but here are some links that suggest that there is a part of the world which considers stylus based devices as touch based. [1] http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/TouchSystems/TouchScreen/Information/Media/PressReleases/?PC_7_RJH9U5230GE3E02LECFTDQG0U7_assetId=1273678744381 http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/TouchSystems/Tou... [2] http://www.pdapanache.com/stylusfaq.asp http://www.pdapanache.com/stylusfaq.asp [3] http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=354774&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFID=28130026&CFTOKEN=29744814 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=354774&dl=ACM&...