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Google set to blow open the tablet market later this year with $99 Nexus tablet

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Re: Google set to blow open the tablet market later this year with $99 Nexus tablet

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Post by jimhefferon »

eckyptang wrote: post #3

I know this is purely anecdotal, but everyone I've seen recently who has bought a tablet, bought a laptop within 6 months or switched back to their old laptop and got rid of it. I'm still not convinced by the tablet hype. The star trek wow factor wears off pretty quick for most people. A $99 tablet may change that (temporarily as it's almost impulse buy pricing), but I'm not sure something of that price will have any…

> everyone I've seen recently who has bought a tablet, bought a laptop within 6 months

Yes, my wife got an IPad from work and after the initial excitement, at least around my house, the "I" proves to stand for "IMDB", which is its main use.

Re: Google set to blow open the tablet market later this year with $99 Nexus tablet

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Post by mtgx »

bilbo0s wrote: post #32
riffraff wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

pardon me, I don't understand your reasoning. Why would apple be less happy with 70% of the market than with 40%? Do you mean that you expect the total size of the market to double, and then expect apple to own 40% of it (so they have a total number of customers which is slightly more than what they had initially) ?

I think he means, in layman's terms, Apple wants to sell Mercedes... Someone else can sell Kia's. Edit: Not sure how that will work out in the tablet market, but it certainly works with cars and laptops.

Getting so tired of car analogies with tablets, especially when they're meant to describe such large differences. Nexus 7 is a very good tablet, and very very close to an iPad in quality.

Re: Google set to blow open the tablet market later this year with $99 Nexus tablet

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Post by glanch »

EwanToo wrote: post #23

Asus have aparantly already denied this, not that it means much. [1] It seems pretty unlikely to me, most of the $99 tablets available on AliExpress are significantly underpowered, especially around the areas of battery and screen quality. Google haven't released a sub-standard Nexus device yet, I'm not sure why they'd do it now, when according to all the reports I've seen the Nexus tablet is doing pretty well. 1 - h…

I've never heard of AliExpress. Looks like crazy cheap stuff smuggled out of Chinese factories.. anyone use it with good results?

Re: Google set to blow open the tablet market later this year with $99 Nexus tablet

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Post by indiecore »

error54 wrote: post #53

A quick google search ( http://bit.ly/RkNKpF ) shows that there are plenty of tablets under $99. I think sub $100 tablet by Google will be good for the market but not any huge game changer like the article makes it out to be.

Yes, pretty much all of those are junk though. The Nexus line is very much NOT junk and coming from Google means they have to stake a bit of their reputation on it. Personally I'm excited if only because it'll be a good way to get a tablet sized device to test apps on.

Re: Google set to blow open the tablet market later this year with $99 Nexus tablet

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Post by cheald »

macavity23 wrote: post #17

I don't think Apple will be unhappy to see this at all . The most recent figures I've seen have the iPad at around 70% market share. There's no chance that will survive after this kind of device appears, but I would guess Apple would be very happy to own, say, the top 40% of the market while the Android OEMs bleed each other dry at tiny margins. Witness Apple's killer execution in the laptop market - and there they'v…

Apple makes its money on recurring hardware purchases. The iPad owner buys the iPad 2 and the iPad 3 and the iPad 4 and so on and so forth every year.

Losing customers to a low-priced Android tablet before they have the chance to get them on board their "mini tablet" upgrade cycle could be disastrous. Apple effectively had first-mover advantage in the 10" tablet market, but Android is solidly ahead in the 7" market with the existence of the Kindle Fire and the Nexus 7, and it's much more difficult to gain ground in that kind of market. Add in a low-price high-quality competitor and you've got a really steep uphill climb.

Re: Google set to blow open the tablet market later this year with $99 Nexus tablet

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Post by eckyptang »

levesque wrote: post #15
eckyptang wrote: post #3

I know this is purely anecdotal, but everyone I've seen recently who has bought a tablet, bought a laptop within 6 months or switched back to their old laptop and got rid of it. I'm still not convinced by the tablet hype. The star trek wow factor wears off pretty quick for most people. A $99 tablet may change that (temporarily as it's almost impulse buy pricing), but I'm not sure something of that price will have any…

For me, the tablet clearly does not replace a laptop for serious emailing and browsing. However, it's perfect as a window to the internets. I read my RSS feeds on it, check my facebook, browse some hacker news (although I still find clients lacking). That's about all I do with it, but that sums up to a good 1-2 hours per day so I would hardly call it a waste.

I don't have any feeds or Facebook. That was a far better solution if you ask me.

Re: Google set to blow open the tablet market later this year with $99 Nexus tablet

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Post by 6ren »

debacle wrote: post #42
eckyptang wrote: post #3

I know this is purely anecdotal, but everyone I've seen recently who has bought a tablet, bought a laptop within 6 months or switched back to their old laptop and got rid of it. I'm still not convinced by the tablet hype. The star trek wow factor wears off pretty quick for most people. A $99 tablet may change that (temporarily as it's almost impulse buy pricing), but I'm not sure something of that price will have any…

They're fun. I can code on them so long as I don't mind waiting a long time for the compiler to run, and I find the screens are easier on the eyes in the dark. But I'd never try and use one to do my job.

Not yet - but x2 in power annually, how long til they're fast enough?

Re: Google set to blow open the tablet market later this year with $99 Nexus tablet

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Post by icefox »

16s wrote: post #40
bilbo0s wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think he means, in layman's terms, Apple wants to sell Mercedes... Someone else can sell Kia's. Edit: Not sure how that will work out in the tablet market, but it certainly works with cars and laptops.

Newer Kia's are the best value money can buy. They are solid and very reliable automobiles. And, they cost 10 times less than a Mercedes. Smart buyers buy them.

10 times less? Have to call you on that. Straight from their website for the cheap-o prices: mercedes c-sedan ~35K, kia forte ~15K. Amusingly the Cheap-o kia forte is a manual transmission and to upgrade to an automatic cost extra. But take note there is no way you could ever sell me the 15K kia forte as the low of the low end models manufacture's put out are _bare_ bones. After renting cars the last few years and seeing just how cheap they could be I honestly checked to see if it even had power windows. Unless you really do want a bare bones car you probably are going to be spending more on top of that 15K, but if you are only going on price why aren't you buying a used car again?

Re: Google set to blow open the tablet market later this year with $99 Nexus tablet

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Post by stephenhuey »

eckyptang wrote: post #3

I know this is purely anecdotal, but everyone I've seen recently who has bought a tablet, bought a laptop within 6 months or switched back to their old laptop and got rid of it. I'm still not convinced by the tablet hype. The star trek wow factor wears off pretty quick for most people. A $99 tablet may change that (temporarily as it's almost impulse buy pricing), but I'm not sure something of that price will have any…

I like the iPad but I have never owned a tablet. However, if I had one laying around I think I'd make use of it for lots of online reading if nothing more.

There's a dev I know in Houston who has been charging lawyer rates for years to train corporate teams in iOS development. Perhaps some of those gigs are triggered by a C-level guy getting excited by the Star Trek wow factor and wanting the IT department to build lots of dashboard UIs for his shiny new tablet, but I really do think there are lots of such dashboard use cases for employees at all levels of an organization and a tablet makes more sense for many of these employees to use for a lot of their job functions.

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