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Looks like great opportunities for folks to start hardware startups. Anybody know how to pick up 2 or 3 of these for prototyping? I'm also assuming you can somehow easily boot Linux on it.
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Actually Intel's ultrabook rebranding was also a clever step to make laptops expensive/more profitable again, while they were in a free spiral fall due to (Taiwan's)Acer's netbooks. That said, hardware will only be dead if US companies give up on producing hardware, and it becomes commodity produced elsewhere, similar to clothing manufactured; only Apple will remain the Prada of hardware.
Add a keyboard(/trackpad?) case to one of these 7" tablets and you pretty much get the original Asus netbook concept, only faster, cheaper, and more versatile.
A college I did graduate work at has a huge auditorium named after a man who made tens of millions of dollars throughout the early 20th century importing stuff from Asia. Which taught me that huge profits can be had by importing exotic junk and ripping off selling it to your fellow citizens for many times what you paid.
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Whoops; thank you. I didn't know that.
Don't give in so quickly - your use was fine, and in keeping with the concept of "X is Dead, Long Live X"
As wikipedia states [1]:
The phrase is a traditional proclamation made following the accession of a new monarch
And...
"Given the memorable nature of the phrase (owing to epanalepsis), as well as its historic significance, the phrase crops up regularly as a headline for articles, editorials, or advertisements on themes of succession or replacement."
That's why bigdubs was right.
But finally... most probably the successor and new monarch could be something like what Ballmer said to The Seattle Times [2]:
I think when you look forward, our core capability will be software, (but) you'll probably think of us more as a devices-and-services company.
Devices+Services is the new king. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, are all going this route.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_is_dead._Long_live_the...
[2] http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2019168601_m...
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Don't give in so quickly - your use was fine, and in keeping with the concept of "X is Dead, Long Live X"
But what the phrase really means is: "X is Dead, Long Live Y" with x being the diseased king, and y the rightful heir and new king. As wikipedia states [1]: The phrase is a traditional proclamation made following the accession of a new monarch And... "Given the memorable nature of the phrase (owing to epanalepsis), as well as its historic significance, the phrase crops up regularly as a headline for articles, editori…
I'm sure there will be many more generations of hardware as well - indeed, the next big generation will probably be some form of print-at-home, then perhaps biological - who knows.
There will be many iterations - but they all will consist on something physical replacing the last generation.
With that said - I appreciate your meta-point, that the concept of "Selling Hardware Alone" without the devices/services associated it, is going out of vogue with the highly-valued companies here in North America. Point made.
A $45 knock off tablet, bought in China miles from the manufacturer doesn't equate to a $45 price tag in the USA. Put a brand name on it (and some quality control), put in the 8 or 16gb the market requires (this tablet was 4gb) and shipping and import fees, and you're easily up to the $200 we're paying today. This is a non-story.
Not quite $45, but also well below $200, even in the UK. These are highly usable, even the cheapest one mentioned, though of course not comparable to a high end tablet. And they've been eating their way steadily down-market over the last 6 months. Give it another 6-12 months, and they'll likely reach the price point on the low end, and start getting specs "good enough" for most casual users on the "high end" ($150).
Same time last year, the "high end" for these tablets were 256MB or 512MB RAM, 4GB storage or so, Android 2.1 and resistive touch screens, in the $150-$200 range.
(One of their more amusing product pages: http://www.lyxfsz.com/en/products_view.htm?id=27 ... )
There is obviously enough margin to get the device to the USA and sell it in a retail store for $75 (a retail store that demands its own margins)
I'm surprised that seeing it at Fry's didn't change his mind to 'these things are going to sell like crazy'
Hardware will die, when web sites or apps will give them for free (as a true commodity). Imagine, you get a nexus tablet when you sign up for Gmail or Google Apps.
Would be pretty neat
There are no returns, for example. When you walk out of the store, that's it. If there is any kind of problem, your main option is to just throw it away. There is no tech support either.