[Arm-netbook] EOMA, Improv etc
peter green
plugwash at p10link.net
Fri May 23 15:56:08 BST 2014
Boris Barbour wrote:
> if I understand correctly.
> What would be the easiest (=cheapest) product to build? I'm guessing a mini-
> pc, since there is no screen to integrate and no real space constraint,
>
The problem is you have to answer the question of "what does this
proposed new product offer that products that are already on the market
do not".
I know you will say "the ability to replace the CPU card and avoid
throwing the rest of the product away". However there are two problems
with that.
1: we are talking about a new unproven product line. What confidence
does a potential customer have that there will ever be a second
generation of CPU card?
2: it relies on their being significant value in the product OUTSIDE the
cpu card. If the rest of the product is little more than a breakout
board for the CPU card that value isn't there.
So since the modularity advantage is rather theoretical at this point
you have to offer something compelling outside of the modularity,
whether that is some unique feature, better performance at a given price
point than has previously been available or something else. Improv
simply didn't offer that, it had a substantially higher price point than
the cubie2 which had the same hardware and was already on the market.
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