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Cisco All But Kills Cius Tablet
alphadogg writes "Cisco is slowly killing off its Cius business tablet less than a year after it started shipping. The Android-based collaboration tool, which featured a 7-inch touchscreen and was not intended to challenge more consumer-oriented tablets such as the Apple iPad, fell victim to the BYOD trend and cloud computing, Cisco said in a blog post. Cisco will instead 'double down' on software offerings like its Jabber and WebEx products for more popular tablets and smartphones supporting a variety of operating systems."
Oh well, Android is a fucking useless turd anyway. Corporations have money, they don't need the poor man's tablet.
After Cisco put back doors in all their equipment, why would anyone who knows this ever consider buying a tablet or any device with plenty of alternatives?
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57070
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.. or run off a 48 volt power supply?
Cisco needs to stop trying these new markets and focus more on their core offerings. Their latest networking an voice gear is slipping when compared to competitors. Microsoft Lync for instance stand to replace a lot of Cisco UM capabilities for most businesses at half the price. All in one UTM devices are eating away at Ciscos security market by combining the cost of 3+ incredibly expensive Cisco devices into one. Cisco, fix your business model before you become irrelevant.
Instead of having us work off the clock for free for your unsupported products why dont your departments increase our budget to support them or better yet have someone support them yourself.
Why even have a help desk or IT department if people come in do whatever they want and scream if do not support it?
Did anyone even know this thing existed?
I suspect if it ever made it to market Cisco would have buried it in licensing costs for every feature.
Have you ever tried to provision their VoIP systems? You are typically in for 4 CALs per phone right off the bat for dial tone and voicemail. That is after paying double for their hardware vs similar SIP or UC handsets from other vendors..
EA David Gardner -"... but the consumers have proven that actually what they want is fun."
That's a stupid sentence filler that doesn't add anything. Do not want.
Tech support is not rocket science, if you can't handle it and adapt with the times I suggest a change of careers.
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Cisco made a tablet???
FYAD!
lol
I didn't realize Cisco had gotten into the drug manufacturing business.
But then maybe the folks paying full price for Cisco's latest gear need meds; in that case, they should be manufacturing Aripiprazole.
So the Linksys router (from CISCO) contains a secret government password and the ability to trace traffic and this can be turned on via UDP.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1590674/cisco-handholds-hackers-backdoor
Jeez, enough, no more US made kit.
might we see a dock for an iDevice that has a telephone handset?
Why would you need that, when you can easily use so many bluetooth or microphones built into headphones?
I've used the iPad for a lot of Skype calls, a good set of earbuds with a microphone worked great.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
prima donnas, and unFCover a story of
You need to imagine Strong Bad's voice saying it for full effect:
HANDSPRING'D!!!
I remember when the CEO of Handspring announced that smart phones were the future for Handspring, and sales of the Visor PDA went almost to zero immediately, and sales of Visor accessories (Springboard cards, etc.) also went almost to zero immediately.
The Cius Tablet has been shipping for less than a year, and the CEO just announced that no further development will ever be done. The chances of anyone getting interested in this now: 0%
And wow, Android 2.2 on a $750 device with a 7 inch screen and a funky Intel chip? 680 grams (about 1.5 pounds)? The review didn't say anything about an ARM emulator so I assume any Android apps with native code for ARM just won't run on this thing. I'd sooner put CyanogenMod 7 on an old Nook Color. 448 grams (just under a pound) by the way.
(Oh wait, I already did that. A Nook Color makes a surprisingly nice Android tablet! It is a lot faster with CM7 than with the factory Nook software.)
The fact that the CEO was willing to Handspring this device probably means that the sales were already close to zero, so he didn't feel there were any sales left to discourage.
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I was very impressed with how Cisco integrated the tablet into the only device an end user would ever need. Check out the 10 minute demo on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2wueml_qOmA#t=1280s
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
> "Cisco is slowly killing off its Cius business tablet [which] fell victim to the BYOD trend and cloud computing,
So a wise company would recognize the need for massive amounts of ultra high-speed routing hardware to supply a voracious Internet model where billions of computers are little more than dumb terminals streaming faux desktop video from computers running elsewhere?
Karl Malden as "The Soldier's" General Omar Bradley: "Do you have anyone in mind, Gerorge?"
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
The big mistake a lot of companies keep making is assuming you can focus on the business market and not get killed. RIM did it and it worked for a while, now they are toast. Sun was obsessed about ignoring the consumer, and they collapsed into nothing when consumer level hardware (PCs) ate their lunch. Microsoft's initial success was going against this trend (and overtaking IBM in the process) and their demise is in caring too much about enterprise sales of Office and Windows and ignoring consumer trends. Apple is set to kill everyone because they care only about the consumer, and all tech tends to trickle down until the consumer, and thereby who controls economy of scale of large sales, kills the narrowly focused business focused companies. BYOD is new, but the basic principle has been at work for a long time.
"BYOD is the new norm.... 95% of organizations surveyed allow employee-owned devices in some way, shape or form in the office... These stats underscore a major shift in the way people are working, in the office, at home and on-the-go, a shift that will continue to gain momentum."
Cisco is now able to identify and predict "a shift that will continue to gain momentum," but a year ago, nobody could foresee it?
In 1980, nobody ever brought an Apple to work to run Visicalc?
I have no idea what the real story is. Maybe an upper-management personality clash. Maybe the device just turned out to be really bad. But I don't think the statistics and "new norm" story can be the real story.
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