I think we all have some kind of good ideas about P2's specs, or name or how it should use a 50 inch oled screen which has not been developed yet.
It's all very fun and sometimes infomative. (Special thanks to Exophase as he seems to be the wise man in this party)
However, it all comes down to one very basic, yet fundametally important question. How can P2 make a lot of money, how can it be profitable(with a reasonable return), what has been proven as beneficial for an expensive product's success.
Better spec doesn't mean jack when its software can't make use of it. Take a look at sumsang's galaxy note 10.1, that thing has a good digitizer pen. But it's still not favourable in comparison with let's say an Ipad3. We have to get things that we are sure that will be useful. Having a 3d screen or 2 screens are not within this catagory. For example, a good amplifier is useful, genuine opengl support is much appreciated, a sensitive resistive touch screen is good, a digitizer pen may be even better, but we have to stay cold-minded as not many linux programs have built-in digitizer support.
Making it cheaper does not guarentee a better overal result. Take a look at those Chinese android tablets. They are cheap as dirt, and some of them are of good quality. They just aren't selling. What if let's say tomorrow, every single Chinese tablet manufacturer decides to put linux into their electronic tea trays? Will they harm Pandora's sell? The answer is may be if P2's target market somehow wants those instead of a Pandora. Can we somehow make pandora competitive in a-best-value-for-your-buck war? We can't. There is not point in lowering our price to $400, as we can't deliver good products with that little profit margin.
Reduce unpredictable loss. If we are going to have the nubs by this weekend, we have to make sure that they arrive on Friday. If we are to entrust a company making cases for p2, we have to make damn sure that every case they ship are nice and solid. If we are to distribute P2 through some body, then he better be able to keep his promises and won't drag we down.
Changing our market strategy. Gaming is a hobby; composing music on the go, reading blue prints and coding are works. Most middle class men don't have many hobbies besides going to gyms and watching TV while eating pizzas, or cleaning their house and such. how about we port many of those engineering programs (freewares of cause) before launch and selling pandoras in bulk to enterprises? P2 can show off powerpoint presentations and record voice notes. It will fit in nicely in an office environment. But then we need to provide more fool-friendly services. Like pre-install softwares for them, auto update, and even to make enterprise editions of pandoras that cut down most of the OS features for a better and easier work experience. May be we can add an second user-interface that only shows apps, documents, emails, calendar, shoping list, finiance software and so on.
Expending from this secondary user-interface idea, I would suggest that it should have seperate tabs for each app. Such as making the first tab to display email, you can directly see what you've just sent, how many inboxes are there. The second tab would be office, and you will have previews of a few documents you just opened. The third would be a QCAD tab that shows all of your recent blueprints. And so on. It should also have some kind of easy to use Qemu thingy, that lets you run simple programs that were written in VB.
Just think about how great that would be. To continue my work, I would not need to turn on the computer, searching for that single software, looking for that document I was just working on, while resist the temptations to fiddle with other programs. All it takes to go what I want to go is a single click. The less clicks the better. This would not only make life easier but would also reduce a lot of the distractions. It's just wonderful to think about.
I would pay good money for this pandora. (If it can run many windows programs with not much trouble, Even $1000 would not be out of the question.)
It's all very fun and sometimes infomative. (Special thanks to Exophase as he seems to be the wise man in this party)
However, it all comes down to one very basic, yet fundametally important question. How can P2 make a lot of money, how can it be profitable(with a reasonable return), what has been proven as beneficial for an expensive product's success.
Better spec doesn't mean jack when its software can't make use of it. Take a look at sumsang's galaxy note 10.1, that thing has a good digitizer pen. But it's still not favourable in comparison with let's say an Ipad3. We have to get things that we are sure that will be useful. Having a 3d screen or 2 screens are not within this catagory. For example, a good amplifier is useful, genuine opengl support is much appreciated, a sensitive resistive touch screen is good, a digitizer pen may be even better, but we have to stay cold-minded as not many linux programs have built-in digitizer support.
Making it cheaper does not guarentee a better overal result. Take a look at those Chinese android tablets. They are cheap as dirt, and some of them are of good quality. They just aren't selling. What if let's say tomorrow, every single Chinese tablet manufacturer decides to put linux into their electronic tea trays? Will they harm Pandora's sell? The answer is may be if P2's target market somehow wants those instead of a Pandora. Can we somehow make pandora competitive in a-best-value-for-your-buck war? We can't. There is not point in lowering our price to $400, as we can't deliver good products with that little profit margin.
Reduce unpredictable loss. If we are going to have the nubs by this weekend, we have to make sure that they arrive on Friday. If we are to entrust a company making cases for p2, we have to make damn sure that every case they ship are nice and solid. If we are to distribute P2 through some body, then he better be able to keep his promises and won't drag we down.
Changing our market strategy. Gaming is a hobby; composing music on the go, reading blue prints and coding are works. Most middle class men don't have many hobbies besides going to gyms and watching TV while eating pizzas, or cleaning their house and such. how about we port many of those engineering programs (freewares of cause) before launch and selling pandoras in bulk to enterprises? P2 can show off powerpoint presentations and record voice notes. It will fit in nicely in an office environment. But then we need to provide more fool-friendly services. Like pre-install softwares for them, auto update, and even to make enterprise editions of pandoras that cut down most of the OS features for a better and easier work experience. May be we can add an second user-interface that only shows apps, documents, emails, calendar, shoping list, finiance software and so on.
Expending from this secondary user-interface idea, I would suggest that it should have seperate tabs for each app. Such as making the first tab to display email, you can directly see what you've just sent, how many inboxes are there. The second tab would be office, and you will have previews of a few documents you just opened. The third would be a QCAD tab that shows all of your recent blueprints. And so on. It should also have some kind of easy to use Qemu thingy, that lets you run simple programs that were written in VB.
Just think about how great that would be. To continue my work, I would not need to turn on the computer, searching for that single software, looking for that document I was just working on, while resist the temptations to fiddle with other programs. All it takes to go what I want to go is a single click. The less clicks the better. This would not only make life easier but would also reduce a lot of the distractions. It's just wonderful to think about.
I would pay good money for this pandora. (If it can run many windows programs with not much trouble, Even $1000 would not be out of the question.)
