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How about $99 for the HTC Flyer... (Price mistake)

price mistake, there's pics of the flyer on best buy doors now saying price mistake and the actual price is 299 in the thread on SD

meh
 
I just went to BB w/ a coworker and we were told it was a mistake. There were a few pissed off people ...
 
Nuts, would have whipped out the BB credit card for a 99 dollar Flyer. Thats where it should be priced anyway, 299 is still overpriced.

On a side note, look at how fast the TouchPad sold out when it hit 99 dollars, and the interest the Flyer generated at 99. Someone needs to make a semi-decent 99 dollar tablet. Thing would sell like hot cakes.
 
Wish they had posted it a few minutes earlier...I just got back from the local BB, where they had the Price Correction already on display
 
Bateluer said:
On a side note, look at how fast the TouchPad sold out when it hit 99 dollars, and the interest the Flyer generated at 99. Someone needs to make a semi-decent 99 dollar tablet. Thing would sell like hot cakes.
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QFT

I allready have a Nook Color running Cyanogenmod 7 but for $99 I would have bought the Flyer just to take notes on using the pen.
 
swanysto said:
How well does the Nook handle Cyanogen?
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My Nook handled it pretty poorly. It ate battery like no tomorrow. And the tablet would often freeze up.

I finally gave up on it and just rooted the stock image instead, actually much happier with it this way.
 
Bateluer said:
Nuts, would have whipped out the BB credit card for a 99 dollar Flyer. Thats where it should be priced anyway, 299 is still overpriced.

On a side note, look at how fast the TouchPad sold out when it hit 99 dollars, and the interest the Flyer generated at 99. Someone needs to make a semi-decent 99 dollar tablet. Thing would sell like hot cakes.
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YEs, someone is going to make a $99 tablet and loose their shirt on hardware sales. The cost to build a good unit is way more than $99. Without pulling an Amazon and tieing the unit to a special app store, no one is going to make money by following this logic.

I understand more and more why people are "protesting" businesses and banks now. They have no F'ing clue.
 
JeffreyLebowski said:
YEs, someone is going to make a $99 tablet and loose their shirt on hardware sales. The cost to build a good unit is way more than $99. Without pulling an Amazon and tieing the unit to a special app store, no one is going to make money by following this logic.
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The HTC Flyer was priced outside of where it should have been. No one denies that. Single core, 7in, Gingerbread. Its basically an oversized phone, with any subsidies from a carrier. Their original 599 price tag was a joke when it went against the 400-500 dollar HoneyComb tablets or the 500 dollar iPad 2. The Flyer would be a strong product between 99-149. But since it probably cost HTC ~200 to actually assemble it, they can't sell it for that cheap on a regular basis. Right now. Hardware prices drop, manufacturing gets cheaper, capacity ramps up, costs come down. Its absolutely possible to build a sub-100 dollar tablet that isn't a complete piece of crap. The biggest hurdle is more that companies want Apple level profit margins, 30%+.

I understand more and more why people are "protesting" businesses and banks now. They have no F'ing clue.
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I agree with this statement, as it applies to banks, businesses, the Occupy Protests, etc. But, lets face it, HTC built a tablet that was underpowered, ran an inappropriate OS, and was priced at the same level as its much stronger competition. If you do that, don't expect to make a lot of sales. The Flyer wasn't a strong product for one main reason, price.
 
Bateluer said:
The HTC Flyer was priced outside of where it should have been. No one denies that. Single core, 7in, Gingerbread. Its basically an oversized phone, with any subsidies from a carrier. Their original 599 price tag was a joke when it went against the 400-500 dollar HoneyComb tablets or the 500 dollar iPad 2. The Flyer would be a strong product between 99-149. But since it probably cost HTC ~200 to actually assemble it, they can't sell it for that cheap on a regular basis. Right now. Hardware prices drop, manufacturing gets cheaper, capacity ramps up, costs come down. Its absolutely possible to build a sub-100 dollar tablet that isn't a complete piece of crap. The biggest hurdle is more that companies want Apple level profit margins, 30%+.



I agree with this statement, as it applies to banks, businesses, the Occupy Protests, etc. But, lets face it, HTC built a tablet that was underpowered, ran an inappropriate OS, and was priced at the same level as its much stronger competition. If you do that, don't expect to make a lot of sales. The Flyer wasn't a strong product for one main reason, price.
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I have no clue what the Flyer was selling for. For $299 personally, I wouldn't buy it. I'd pony up the xtra $100 and get the Transformer or Iconia.

There is no way to make a sub $100 tablet that isn't a POS. The cheap ones out there now, suck. I mean seriously suck. I bought one just to see how bad they are. I wouldn't even let my 8 year old use it because you can't even play angry birds on it. You might, might be able to build a unit out of parts that is good, for around $200, but then you have to factor in the costs of designing it, testing it, licensing features, paying someone to develop a flavor of Android to put on it, validating that build, designing packaging, shipping, having customer support, training that support, having someone maintain updates for the device, and on top of that find somewhere to make a profit.

Apple makes a hefty profit on their devices because they know that can use the economy of scale and just pump out millions of devices, because they know they will sell. Not many companies out there have the capital to make that kind of investment/risk. Look at HP. They caved within weeks.
I think the Amazon Fire will be the low price Android tablet to beat. It's $199 but costs $209 to make. If you want inexpensive and feature laden get the Fire.
 
JeffreyLebowski said:
I have no clue what the Flyer was selling for. For $299 personally, I wouldn't buy it. I'd pony up the xtra $100 and get the Transformer or Iconia.
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It started at 499/599 for 16GB/32GB.

There is no way to make a sub $100 tablet that isn't a POS. The cheap ones out there now, suck. I mean seriously suck. I bought one just to see how bad they are. I wouldn't even let my 8 year old use it because you can't even play angry birds on it. You might, might be able to build a unit out of parts that is good, for around $200, but then you have to factor in the costs of designing it, testing it, licensing features, paying someone to develop a flavor of Android to put on it, validating that build, designing packaging, shipping, having customer support, training that support, having someone maintain updates for the device, and on top of that find somewhere to make a profit.
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Right now, key phrase, right now.

Regardless, if BB was honoring and actually selling the Flyer for 99 dollars, I would have shown up on my PJs with my BB credit card.

Edit - HP didn't want the TouchPad to succeed either, when it didn't get iPad 2 level sales right away, they killed it. Their 'tarded CEO wanted HP to become an enterprise IT company. He's gone now. 😛
 
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