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Dell will score an own goal with the Streak
TIN BOX MAKER Dell is about to score an own goal in its match with Apple by shipping a product that Jobs Mob can wipe the floor with.
The Dell Streak should be knocking the spots off the Ipod touch and possibly taking a chunk out of sales of Apple's Ipad.
However Dell's pricing for the Streak, which has been leaked by Daring Fireball, shows that the company seems to have a bad case of the Jobs' Mob and plans on overcharging for the product.
It looks like the Streak will be hitting the street for $300 with a two-year AT&T contract, $550 without. This is twice the price of an Ipod Touch, which is about to get a Retina Display and dual cameras.
If you think that the Streak is a tablet, it means that it will cost $50 more than an Ipad with a 9.7-inch display. To make matters worse it looks like the Streak will ship with a year old version of the Android OS.
One has to question what Michael Dell was smoking when he thought he could compete with Jobs' Mob with an overpriced gadget that does less.
The Ipad and Ipod touch are not game changing technology and both are overpriced for what you get. However we are starting to wonder what is going on in the technology industry when outfits like Dell cannot get products to market that can wipe the floor with Apple.
Microsoft had a really nice looking tablet, which it mysteriously pulled, HP has been mucking around with one and not got one out. Even the cheap and cheerful Asian manufactures seem reluctant to give Jobs anything that looks like competition.
We don't know what the world is coming to. µ
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"The Ipad and Ipod touch are not game changing technology and both are overpriced for what you get."
yeah, thats why the rest of the industry is falling all over themselves trying to come up with copy cat products to compete against apple, yet to ship one
the hordes of potential Android tablet manufacturers are waiting for a version that properly supports the format (due in 3.0).
Meanwhile I see Nick is refusing to give up on his belief that the BOM costs should be anywhere close to RRP (completely ignoring development, manufacturing, software, licensing, shipping, marketing and the fact that companies like to make a profit). Maybe he still belives in the tooth fairy and father Christmas too.
Apple is hogging a great deal of world's flash memory and lcd panel supply. That and the fact that very few had faith that the iPad would float and didn´t bothered to write a decent OS for tablet, not that the iPad has such thing as well. As for clones, there is plenty of chinese rip-offs in online retailers such as dealextreme, for a very low prices (probably using rejected materials). But with this type of thing, you're taking chances...
The high retail price can be reduced by attaching to an expensive contract.
Play musical chairs and you are OK but lets hope the price protection conspiracy ends soon.
Waiting for those to turn up; maybe manufacturing one is a bit more costly and complex than everyone initially figured, though the market is there, it just need to be half the price and 80% of the iPad capabilities.
Or is the problem that Apple has a lock on some of the more critical components?
Don't worry, Nick.
An army of Android slates is now on its way, with the goal of overthrowing the ruling iPad.
It's a tough battle, because Apple is subsidising the iPad aggressively, to get a foot into the content distribution market (eg Newspapers).
iPhones/iPads/iPods are game changing. Not for the hardware specs, but because of the multitouch interface. Apple was first, giving it a 4 year lead on the competition.