Thread: Are you buying the N900? (Quick poll)
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2009-08-26 , 20:53
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
What use is any of this if a large portion of the core drivers of the community cannot afford to buy devices?
And that shall be my new slogan for the N900 tablet!

Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
Sorry, but that's a trite and cavalier slap in the face, lemmy.

No one I know volunteered to get hit with the economic crisis we find ourselves in. I'd much rather be where I was last year: in the "sure, I can afford that, no problem" set.
Economic crisis or not, it's also a competitive loser. What good did higher specs and a new BluRay movie player do for the Sony Playstation 3 with such a high price? It's still, by far, the biggest loser in the console wars and they're only now realizing that they needed to compete better on price after pushing so hard to make people realize that they were buying into VALUE. People like value, sure, but it's got to a value they can afford. In their latest attempt to lower the cost of the Playstation 3, they've already lost because everyone else has had time to take the marketshare and profit ahead of Sony. Nokia had dug a whole new market of the 'Internet Tablet' (more powerful than a PDA, much smaller than a laptop or netbook.. and priced at around the price of a netbook). It had potential as a whole new kind of market.. which is something some people tried to make them aware of. I truly suspect that could that have been the 'million dollar idea' that Nokia execs were just too proud of themselves to listen to because it came from the community instead of from their own chairmembers?

Originally Posted by lemmyslender View Post
Perhaps the people that can afford it and do buy it will become the new "core drivers" of the community??
Wow. That's not at all the definition of oligarchy.

Originally Posted by christexaport View Post
You can always put those kids in commercials, to work in a sweat shop, or up for adoption. Seriously though, I think if you had the cash, you'd get it.
"If you had the cash, you'd get it." Are you so sure that if someone "had the cash", that they might not instead spend it better elsewhere on something more competitive? **cohubrisugh**