Good options exist, including some offered
by gadget makers themselves, like Apple.
Not exact matches
It's a really bad time to be a
gadget maker, if the steady raft of poor sales reports is anything to go
by.
The company has, over the past decade, transformed itself from a humble
maker of computers into the biggest and most important technology company on the planet, mostly
by eschewing the
gadget - only approach.
The characters in Cory Doctorow «s
Makers harness some of that power
by inventing imaginative
gadgets forged from their own clever coding and 3D printers, creating a dynamic new economy as a result.
Borders has a different sales strategy as per Edward, in which they were not going into the scheme where high priced
gadgets were being made and provided to customers for reading the books
by the particular
maker.
The OS is Google's Android 1.6 with the
gadget makers assuring an upgrade to the latest 2.2 Froyo
by September.
Upgrade release timeframe extensions made not only
by HTC but also other Android
gadget makers suggests they're having a tougher time adapting the code to their devices than they first thought.
Other companies, particularly tech
gadget makers, have also stimulated conversation
by distributing products to bloggers.
Even at the micro level we frustrate our innate contentment mechanism: the latest thing to catch my eye in this regard is a piece
by James Surowiecki (of Wisdom of Crowds fame) in the New Yorker in which he points out that
gadget makers continue to increase the number of features on devices, consumers continue to prefer
gadgets with more bells and whistles, but once buyers turn into users the greater «wealth» (my term) only makes them unhappy.
August has announced its new August Connect, a device that aims to make life (and home automation) easier
by giving the
maker's Smart Lock an always - there Internet connection for remote access (as well as use with other connected
gadgets).