2011年3月31日星期四

apps it the key to android tablets’ success

For those tablets manufacturers’ representatives, they think huge amount of apps it the key to android tablets’ success. As everyone knows, iPad has more than 300,000 apps, and 60,000 of them are specially developed for iPad, if android tablets have so many apps, along with their own online store, they have confidence to take over iPad.
But developers don't think so, they think the key element is the price. This price is not the price of android tablets but the price for what developers considered as good apps, in other words when there’s a good app, Google and Apple, who pay more or who support more, developer will be on his side.
For customers, the key element is not the elements that list above, not price either, but better hardware configuration , for example, better screen, longer battery time, or if it has a camera or if it supports Flash, in short, better design and user experience is what customers care about.Electronics Wholesaler
I’m a bit surprised after I read this survey, price has always been a magic weapon to success, but it has been neglected on tablets market. It’s not that the price is not important, it’s because every one knows it is very difficult to launch a low price product as iPad has made customer get used to have a considerably lightweight and good enough to play movies. However, the good news is, customers are not as much as manufacturers thought that they care about the price.
It is also important that listen to what customer says at anytime, and this might be the key element. But as far as we know, it seems like that manufacturers don’t really want to know what customer needs, all they think about is their market share. Thus, we saw many android tablets in CES, but not many are impressive, maybe Samsung and Motorola, but they still cannot win the war with Apple.
But for me, I think the most important thing for android tablet, first is the launch of ‘honeycomb’, the next generation of android operation system. A specially designed for tablets platform is the foundation to win this war against Apple. Apps development should not be a problem as if android operation system is open source, Google should consider more on operation system upgrading as too many version of android system, and it take a long time to upgrade, but as competitor, when Apple decided to upgrade its system, actually almost everything has been upgraded, and if android system is easier to upgrade, then the product value will last longer, and it makes more value for customers too.
Furthermore, android is lack of a ‘killer app’ as Office to Microsoft. And android platform also need an ‘Office’.
Fro traditional laptop manufacturers, they need to launch their own products and it has to be revolutionary, thus they can reseize their market, following Apple’s success might be a big mistake.
The reasons that made iPad successful have always been there, it’s as simple as few words: lightweight and thin and looks cool. And sometimes Apple has its new products launched, it’s thinner, lighter, more elegant.
Hardware, system, apps are three core elements of tablets, some tablets didn’t succeed because the huge difference on system and apps. Now most of tablets manufacturers they build showy and not substantial app store, and make exaggerate and not accurate advertise, some battery even cannot last for 5 hours, all these can only lead to the path of thorns.

2011年3月30日星期三

Why so many manufacturers took aggressive pose at tablets but they took no actions until 2011?

Why so many manufacturers took aggressive pose at tablets but they took no actions until 2011? iPad’s success has made them understand what customer needs from a tablet, and then they have their own tablets made. However, they were very careful when they launch their tablets products, and they’ve been trying to find a shortcut for the break through in the market. This is really an interesting and rare scene. After all, it’s all because the huge competitive advantage the iPad has, and apple is so mature and veteran.
I analyzed iPad competitive advantage. Many people would neglect that iPad is the Apple’s first autonomy CPU, which means Apple has built a stronghold on CPU, end system and software.  Let’s put it in this way, even iPad2 starts from $499, Apple still can make at least 20% profit, and if its competitors lower their price, they hardly make any at all. Additionally, Apple has added 300,000 apps into its store, it had put additional value at the very beginning. Which makes Apple lead the run for 2 years at the beginning.  Apple has huge advantage on eco-industry chain.
It’s not that iPad is unbeatable, we all know, tablets market is pretty similar as smartphone’s market: Apple, RIM and Microsoft develop their own operation system, other manufacturers only produce their own products but using Android tablet system. In smartphone’s business, Apple’s dominant position has been smashed by Android phones. And now, all PC manufacturers have been expecting significant change by Google upgrade its operation system. Especially on tablets business, those manufacturers expect they could win the war with Apple by using android new system ‘honeycomb’.
Will the new operation system be the key element of the tablets battle? Actually, this so-called key elements we can named a lot more such as appearance design, hardware configuration, or a more competitive price? Every one who is in this game they can name a lot of elements that they think is the key to the success, but is there a shortcut to success among these elements? Which are second important and which elements are not supposed to exaggerate? Electronics Wholesaler
From IDC, in year 2011, sales volume of tablets will be around 42 million, therefore, they have did a survey among 1500 people, the question was: ‘what do you think is the key elements that tablets could be successful?’ interesting thing is, standing on different positions, they gave completely different answers which is worth for us to think about.

2011年3月29日星期二

What is the hottest I.T. product in 2011?


What is the hottest I.T. product in 2011? The answer is tablets, to be more accurate, android tablets. Although many people have said this, but what you have to admit is that 2011 is the crucial year that if android tablets would expand. HP, Acer, Toshiba, Dell they all released their own android tablets in CES at the beginning of this year. I roughly counted that there would be at least  33 android tablets from now to June,2011, so there begins another hot discussion topic, will android tablets threaten iPad’s market? In other words , whole I.T. field eager to know, will android tablets be as popular as iPad? Is there any shortcut to success? Electronics Wholesaler


Some might say, as a outstanding model of tablets PC, Apple’s iPad has been sold millions and it looks that iPad2 will continuing follow the success. Android tablets may seems a bit redundant? The point is, if everyone is saying 2011 will be tablets year’, and if there’s still one player on the stage, then year of tablets may be vainglorious, and look upon history, there’s no successful example that one player is playing the whole market would keep growing.

Anyways, from the bottom of my heart, I’m very happy to see that there are hundreds of tablets on the market, to be a wonderful year. But the truth might not be so optimistic. Let’s say, for no doubt that tablet PC will continue selling like hot cakes. And still, it’s Apple’s ‘one man show’. For many manufacturers, they are in this tablets business, it’s not strategic offense but more likely they are trying to get what they have lost from Apple.

2011年3月27日星期日

The Using Experience of My Car Black Box

I prepared to buy a car black box with screen several days ago but I hesitated about which one I should choose between SC1053 and SC1008. The former with 640*480 resolution has low price, simple function and its wide-angle lens is 140 degrees. The latter with 1920*1280 resolution has high price, stronger features but its wide-angle lens is just 90 degrees.
The wider the wide-angle lens is, the more information the car recorder can take. Wide-angle lens plays an important role in recording. But I was also afraid that the saved file recorded in HD mode is too large, which would cause a big delay between each segment of video. As a result, there is a large blank interval. Considering its main function is to record when driving, I finally decided to buy SC1053 together with an 8G SD card from an online wholesale electronic store.
I received my car black box last Saturday. I installed it in my card immediately and then had a try. I set the video recording time cycled every 2 minutes. The function of motion detection model was closed. I found that the delay between two video segments was no more than 1 second, which reached my expected effect. At present, I’ve no idea of the coverage condition because the memory of SD card is not full. Disappointedly the image resolution is not enough. I am unable to see the plate number if my car is a little far away from the car in my front. And the effect is even worse at night.Electronics Wholesaler
Therefore, the evidence recorded by SC1053 doesn’t have enough credibility. I suggest you should choose HD equipments if you are about to buy a car black box. The delay problem can be made up by the continuous shooting in the short trip and choosing the minimum video segments time in the long trip. The wide-angle lens should not be too large. Above 90 degrees should be enough. Hope my experience would help you.