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Archos 101 G9 tablet video demo
Wants to beat the Ipad 2
Wed Jun 29 2011, 11:52
FRENCH TABLET MAKER Archos gave The INQUIRER a look at its latest 10in tablet that it hopes will beat Apple's Ipad 2.
It will take on the Ipad 2 and all the other tablets with a 10.1in capacitive touchscreen powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core processor. It will also aim to be cheaper with prices starting at £279, according to CEO of Archos, Henri Crohas.
Archos told us the tablet, along with a smaller 8in version, will be available in September. A couple of selling points might be the slot for a USB 3G dongle and the fact that you will be able to opt for a Seagate 250GB hard drive. µ
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I can get a mediaplayer for 30 quid that plays everything in full HD on TV's, so that capability isn't that impressive these days, it's not 10 years ago.
(people just get confused because atom powered netbooks cannot, shame on you intel)
And your average p&s these days also output to HD tv, that technology is now pretty standard and the only limiting factor is license fees for HDMI and dolby and and and rather than the hardware, but of course archos has the model where you buy the needed licenses later so that's additional cost in many cases.
I agree with commenter Mitchell, it's not a model that I would pick since it's annoying to the customer and makes everything unclear as to what the final complete setup you seek will cost you and if that gets too high you have a disappointed angry customer who feels cheated, so yeah I'd not call that smart business.
But they have the company, and are still in business, even through a recession, so I guess they know the market better or have other tricks that compensate where they fail, like their ability to make their product extremely widely available.
If they have given up nickel and dime-ing the people who buy their products that generally are missing the most important options for success on the product and expecting people to purchase the necessary items that make their products good then the company will start to be taken seriously but when they sell you a video player then you need to buy video converters to make it work the way it should have out of the box then this company deserves the poor negative reviews they get.
Generally because of this bad business model of nickle and dime-ing for features that should have out of the box every person I know who has purchased an Archos product never purchases another. Heres to hoping they dont alienate their consumers with this extremely poor business model.