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Re: 5" Android Tablet $155

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http://www.smit.com.cn/English/proDetail.asp?InfoId=126&...

I've been impressed with the Smit and excited someone's selling them, rebranded or no. I'll probably give this guy a shot when my birthday rolls around and report back.

That'd be awesome.

Re: 5" Android Tablet $155

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You're wrong. Apple does care and does want to sell the most products in the world. If it didn't, it wouldn't challenge technology that another company develops that's similar to their own; they'd let it go because they build the better product anyway.

If it wanted to sell most products it would not only lower it's prices significantly it would also produce much more products. Challenging competitors is among some of the things companies do. That doesn't mean they fear them.

Decreasing your price will usually increase quantities sold but often does not increase your profit.

Re: 5" Android Tablet $155

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I've been impressed with the Smit and excited someone's selling them, rebranded or no. I'll probably give this guy a shot when my birthday rolls around and report back.

That'd be awesome.

Its very entertaining that 'enso' hasn't thought to visit your profile to answer his questions about who you are.

Re: 5" Android Tablet $155

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And this is why Steve Jobs sees Android as a direct attack against Apple: these devices (which Apple would like to sell at a high margin) can be made really cheap in a world of commoditized hardware (thanks, Microsoft!) and free software (thanks, Google!). Edit-reply: while Apple can try to split off a premium market as it did with PC's, this is going to be a lot harder (and the premium market will be lot smaller) wh…

On the other hand, the absolute glut of really shitty iPad knock-offs flooding the market could cause a flight to quality.

I was playing with a co-worker's Nexus one today who is very Apple-skeptical and the thing was just... bleh. They can't even get scrolling to work right on their premiere phone?

Re: 5" Android Tablet $155

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That'd be awesome.

Its very entertaining that 'enso' hasn't thought to visit your profile to answer his questions about who you are.

Agreed, my identity is not exactly a secret. I haven't heard from his lawyers yet though, maybe it's still in the mail somewhere.

It's sad though, I think he may have something there but he's going about it completely wrong.

He wouldn't even have to rebrand the thing, just sell it as it is, save a bunch of $. After all it's not like smit is going to give him an exclusive deal.

And I'm still not sure what the status is on importing that thing with a 3G dongle in to Europe or the US without the required 'seal of approval'. I'm pretty sure that the local variety FCC wants to know that your device has passed inspection, and that operating a device that has not passed inspection is tricky at best and illegal in most places.

Re: 5" Android Tablet $155

#69
Nope, still nothing around that even vaguely competes with the iPod touch. 3,427 announcements of amazing freakin' devices sure to be released any day now!

The only market with more vaporware is alternative-fuel vehicles.

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