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Fusion Garage Going After Lower-Price Tablet Market

Posted by Soulskill on from the wising-up dept.

nk497 writes "Fusion Garage has dropped the price of its follow-up to the JooJoo tablet, cutting the Grid10's price by $200 to $299 in the US and £259 in the UK. Outspoken CEO Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan has clearly been following the HP TouchPad fire sale, and noticed the importance of price when it comes to taking on Apple's iPad. He said there's no point in buying 'a poor carbon copy' of the Apple tablet for the same price. 'At $499, why would you buy — it's like going to China and buying a [fake] Louis Vuitton bag, at the same price as the real Louis Vuitton bags. It doesn't make sense, when you know it's a rip-off product,' he said."

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  1. Wait... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...Did he just say *his* product was a "poor carbon copy" and a "rip-off"?

    1. Re:Wait... by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I guess the idea of trying to make a BETTER product never occurred to him.

      Cheaper is better.

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    2. Re:Wait... by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 1, Insightful

      That's why everyone drives the cheapest car they can find,...

      Yes, they all do. For cars and everything else you listed. The thing is, you seem just a tad lacking in sophistication to realise the implied qualifier, "... that meets their needs."

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    3. Re:Wait... by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Do people *need* power windows and power locks?

      The problem with pedantic little shits is they think their current favorite definition of a word is the only definition. What are you, six?

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    4. Re:Wait... by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 1, Insightful

      1) You don't seem to know what an ad hominem attack is. It didn't just call him a vulgar word, I justified the vulgarity with an explanation as to exactly why it was deserving in this context.

      2) A dishonest argument is just as disrespectful as a vulgarity if not more so because not only is it rude, it is also intended to draw someone into wasting time.

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    5. Re:Wait... by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 1, Insightful

      WWhere's the pedantry? In noting the difference between "need" and "want" or "nice to have" or "worth paying extra for"? Because that's rather fundamental, and by no means splitting hairs over strict definitions.

      Merriam Webster definition of need:
      2a) a lack of something requisite, desirable, or useful
      meanwhile YOUR definition is the last of 4 definitions.

      So yes you are acting like a six year old pedant and you got back the level of argument you gave.

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  2. No sale by elrous0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A no-name company with a skeevy CEO, a custom OS instead of Android or something more well-supported? Maybe at $100, or possibly even $200. But once you get into the $300 range, you've moved beyond the impulse buy and well into the realm where I want a name-brand reputable company backing it--and an OS that I know is and will be supported.

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
  3. I bought my Galaxy Tab because it can do more... by rafial · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...I feel bad these suckers who are lining up to buy "a cheap carbon copy".

  4. Bad analogy by ubergeek65536 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would the rip off Louis Vuitton bag be any worse that the real thing? There are good knock offs and bad ones. Some of those rip off items come off the same assembly line as the real ones.

  5. Re:real vs fake by Lost+Race · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I know! That's exactly the same as occasionally plugging in a flash drive!

    I'm so glad I never have to do that with my iPap!