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Originally Posted by tompe
No Android tablet maker can currently compete with iPad. So your argument is pretty weak since for example Motorola cannot compete with iPad.
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Your reasoning is faulty. The fact that even companies with huge resources and products and components in the industry can't whip up an answer to the iPad in only a year since it's introduction -- then a coupla Indian dudes who can write a spec sheet sure has heck aren't going to be able too.
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Originally Posted by tompe
The hardware in the Adam seems to be good.
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Not a single review of the Adam has been positive. Having this or that feature does not an iPad killer make. And the real belly laugh is the Pixel Qi screen is one of the huge disappointments. Rather than being the best of both worlds -- it's the worst of both worlds. What a hoot given all the hoopla.
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Originally Posted by tompe
The screen is a compromise but that was well known that it would be.
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Sure...that's exactly how _I_ remember all the talk on this forum from a year ago was. "The Adam, you know, it's going to come out with a mediocre Pixel Qi screen that will suck compared to eInk screens for reading and still suck compared to the iPad screen from battery life." Yep. People called that from day one.
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Originally Posted by tompe
The small amount of reading I have done on my Adam shows that it works perfectly OK for me. I also have en iPad 2 since a couple of days and I did not find reading on that better then reading on the Adam. And the Adam actually works better than the ipad if you read in very strong light.
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You'd have been better to buy an iPad 2 and a Kindle, dontcha think? After all, should you have even had a reason to buy an iPad 2 after already owning an Adam?
Remember, the Adam was supposed to be shipping before the iPad was even announced. It barely made it out the door before the iPad 2 arrived. And STILL it's incredibly buggy. STILL the screen is so bad that no one would WANT such a screen. What they wanted was the IDEA of what the screen promised to be. eInk + LCD, what could be better than that? Well, pretty much anything else is.
The Pixel Qi screen is such a disappointment that only RIM could out do it by putting out a RIM tablet that didn't have email, contacts and messaging -- the very things that made Blackberries "Crackberries" in the first place.
The iPad is so far more than "good hardware". This isn't the PC world where everyone can buy off the shelf components, slap their name on a generic case and say "look at me, I'm a computer manufacturer".
Android isn't "Windows for tablets" yet. A small set of dudes from India weren't going to be able to leap ahead of Google (let alone Apple) and come out with a polished tablet OS.
But wait -- there's STILL more. Even if a miracle had occurred and they had put great hardware with great software -- they STILL aren't even close to having the supply chain magnificence that Apple has. The ability to contract out manufacturing at such a scale that you can have low prices, still make money, and produce millions upon millions of tablets each month.
But wait -- let's pretend they COULD have done that. You still have to have the rest of the ecosystem. An answer to iTunes and the App store.
But wait -- there's yet STILL more. You have to be able to market and sell your product like Apple does. Having your own stores would really help. Having the pull to get into Best Buy, Walmart et. al. is going to be necessary as well.
But wait -- one still isn't going to be able to compete against Apple without the billions and billions of cash on hand that enables you to enter into deals with strategic partners to ensure low price and availability of the components you are going to need to make those tens upon millions of Notion Ink Adam's that folks would surely flock to buy if only "5 engineers from India" managed to do all the aforementioned impossibilities.
There was never a chance Notion Ink was going to make this mythical product that had so many folks salivating over the last year and a half on this forum.
Lee