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Old 02-25-2013, 07:18 PM   #32
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by Tacty View Post
and yet both are the same hardware wise...masters of recycling...
Oddly enough, the NYT had something to say about that, today, in their report on Nook:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/25/bu...anted=all&_r=0

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Others pointed out that even if the Nook itself was a nice device, its offerings were not as rich as that of its rivals. Shaw Wu, a senior analyst at Sterne Agee, a midsize investment bank in San Francisco, said, “It is a very tough space. It is highly competitive, and extras like the depth of apps are very important. But it requires funding and a lot of attention, and Barnes & Noble is competing against companies like Apple and Google, which literally have unlimited resources.”

Horace Dediu, an independent analyst based in Finland who focuses on the mobile industry, said that the difference in quality among the products was so small as to be increasingly irrelevant.

“We’ve moved beyond a game of specs,” he said. “Now it is about your business model, about distribution and economics of scale.”
And, note, Apple is not a small brand..
Which is why they play by a different set of rules when it comes to pricing.
It's a whole different language..
You need to be fluent in both value-shopping and Apple-shopping to play the faux-analyst game these days.
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