On 2011-11-23 at 12:31:19 -0500, Ernest Kugel wrote: > Hi, looking at the Nanonote sales, not saying I'm disappointed, but, > this thing should be selling way more. The device is great, so this > could be purely a marketing problem. One marketing problem is that > the nanonote is universal - you can use it for almost anything.
I hate to say this, but what can the nanonote do that a 100 EUR android phone can't do (better)? Most mainstream people won't choose between buying said phone and buying the nanonote, they will already have said phone (or a better one) and need a good reason to buy something that mostly does a subset of what they can already do. I don't believe this can be solved this with marketing, unless we have access to apple-scale marketing resources and we are able to create a need that wasn't there before. On the other hand, there are a few, possibly niche, things that the nanonote can do and no 100 EURO smartphone on the market can; in random order. * Be free. * Enable further work in a project that promises to build a better computing world. * Allow to build innovative devices based on a working, open base (this is still not totally feasible, however, AFAIK) * Be hackable. * Be useful for learning (here the limitations are a bonus, not a problem). * Stimulate creativity (as above: with connectivity nobody would have worked on the atben). -- Elena ``of Valhalla'' _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
