Clean up
Noticing I had a lot of posts of the rant sort in there lately and angrier sounding than I intended upon re-reading them. So went over the past couple of weeks and deleted a lot of them. I'll try and sum up here in a much shorter hopefully less angsty format.
BlackBerry 10. From what I saw it is cool, even innovative on some fronts, but all the razzle dazzle is aimed at enterprise users and not consumers. With BYOD becoming the norm especially with cell phones, I think they took the wrong approach. Should have tried to dazzle consumers while maintaining current state of enterprise relevance. No more no less. Also, Active Frames? They look like and sound like Live Tiles. I laughed pretty hard.
iPad Mini. Rumours are heavy on this one, so it might turn out to be true. I hope not. Would be a bad move. Tablets are just starting to pick up momentum. Introducing a lower cost tablet will set expectations for cost of Apple products lower than they want to deliver. New iPad on the other hand has excellent margins and a price tag that marks it as a premium device.
Surface Phone. Not feasible. Rumours peg it coming in far too late to be a north star product like the Surface tablet. Microsoft does not have hardware resources to back anything other than a low volume north star product. Also, given the size of Windows Phone's market and the fact that they are a software company and not a hardware company they can't afford to eat any of their OEM's sales. Especially not when HTC and Nokia are delivering fantastic hardware.
Tada! Short and sweet.
BlackBerry 10. From what I saw it is cool, even innovative on some fronts, but all the razzle dazzle is aimed at enterprise users and not consumers. With BYOD becoming the norm especially with cell phones, I think they took the wrong approach. Should have tried to dazzle consumers while maintaining current state of enterprise relevance. No more no less. Also, Active Frames? They look like and sound like Live Tiles. I laughed pretty hard.
iPad Mini. Rumours are heavy on this one, so it might turn out to be true. I hope not. Would be a bad move. Tablets are just starting to pick up momentum. Introducing a lower cost tablet will set expectations for cost of Apple products lower than they want to deliver. New iPad on the other hand has excellent margins and a price tag that marks it as a premium device.
Surface Phone. Not feasible. Rumours peg it coming in far too late to be a north star product like the Surface tablet. Microsoft does not have hardware resources to back anything other than a low volume north star product. Also, given the size of Windows Phone's market and the fact that they are a software company and not a hardware company they can't afford to eat any of their OEM's sales. Especially not when HTC and Nokia are delivering fantastic hardware.
Tada! Short and sweet.
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