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Originally Posted by JSWolf
One problem they might have is that unless it's available in shops where people can actually go and get a hands on with it, it may not sell all that well. Imaging spending $400 on an unknown item that all you get is a picture of and no ability have actually try it before you buy. I'd be leery of it if I was an average non-tech type person.
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Exactly my concern as well. Lack of access and demo-ability has kept many electronic devices from making it in the market. Store display units with no power, or locked up, are as hard to sell as no-display items. Unless these things start turning up at your local electronics stores, and maybe in the electronics sections of department and BigBox stores, and capable of being played with, how will they sell them to anyone but early adopter geeks?
And if the people who buy them don't show them off to their hordes of friends, who will buy after the geeks?
And another thing:
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Originally Posted by Nate the great
The design was deliberate.
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Maybe so, but if it looks like the fugly dingus we've been staring at for the past year, the design isn't very good. (Yes, I'm getting frustrated by not seeing an up-to-date version!)