Several industries are out of ideas. They have tried everything and it did not work. Now, like scared stupid children they do the copycat game. Or should I say cargo cult ? Aluminum, black keyboard and few ports in some precise order on the side must sell tons of notebooks. They fail to realize their prices are unjustifiable for anyone except the fanatics that would not touch an Apple product by a 6 foot pole. Also, they fail to recognize (otherwise they would just stop throwing precious resources at this losing game) that their software is lousy and they have no chance to compete on this front. Oh my, how computing could change in a decade !
SOURCE:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/245564/lg_intros_thinnest_ultrabook_yet_the_xnote_z330.html
Nicu 4:43 am on December 7, 2011 164 days ago Reply
Wow, found this piece which uses similar words to my previous post
http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/12/06/understanding-apples-endgame/
“People talk about competition and how its healthy in an open market. I believe that to be true. However, what we have now in the technology market is not competition, it’s copying.”
“Technology companies these days are scared to death to make a product that varies too far from Apple does because they fear being left behind. Some companies even go so far as to say that Apple’s inventions were inevitable — if that’s the case why weren’t they done before?”
Nicu 5:10 am on December 7, 2011 164 days ago Reply
Even RIMM gives a shot. But they copy the Nokia N8 instead (too proud to go the Samsung way). They also add a Zune touch, brilliant.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/12/06/bbx.rechristened.blackberry.10.at.devcon/
http://events.nokia.com/nokian8/home.html