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wodin · 08-28-2012, 02:36 PM

Everything is in a niche; when I bought my original Samsung Tab nearly everyone was making 10” tablets, so I was in the niche that wanted a tab small enough to fit in my trousers pocket. Then when I bought my Samsung Note so I could have my phone and tablet in the same device I was again in a niche of having hands big enough (or eyeballs bad enough) to have a HUGE phone.

When the Intel MS Surface arrives I will be in the niche of coveting (or hopefully owning) a full featured slate that’s small enough to carry in a portfolio with a sometimes keyboard instead of a crippled PC accessory with an ARM chip.

Point is that anything that’s slightly different from the mainstream (they call that innovation) is in a niche market until they’ve sold a boatload of them, then they become the new mainstream.

08-28-2012, 02:36 PM	#27
wodin Illiterate Posts: 10,279 Karma: 37848716 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: The Sandwich Isles Device: Samsung Galaxy S10+, Microsoft Surface Pro	Everything is in a niche; when I bought my original Samsung Tab nearly everyone was making 10” tablets, so I was in the niche that wanted a tab small enough to fit in my trousers pocket. Then when I bought my Samsung Note so I could have my phone and tablet in the same device I was again in a niche of having hands big enough (or eyeballs bad enough) to have a HUGE phone. When the Intel MS Surface arrives I will be in the niche of coveting (or hopefully owning) a full featured slate that’s small enough to carry in a portfolio with a sometimes keyboard instead of a crippled PC accessory with an ARM chip. Point is that anything that’s slightly different from the mainstream (they call that innovation) is in a niche market until they’ve sold a boatload of them, then they become the new mainstream. Last edited by wodin; 08-28-2012 at 02:42 PM.