Not exact matches
Competing on price won't help if it leaves people with the impression that the
device is cheaply built, and getting customers to buy a phone
without being about to touch it first could prove difficult, he said.
In other words, OEMs should be free to build all kinds of
devices —
devices with keyboards,
without keyboards, with front - facing cameras, two inches, three inches, four inches — that operators should be able to
compete on the strength and coverage of their network — 2G, 3G, 4G, LTE, CDMA — and that in the end, with innovation coming at every layer, it would be the consumer who would be able to benefit by getting the best
device on the best network for them.
Without the scale of a company like AT&T, these smaller players simply can't get manufacturers to build
devices at a low enough cost and in a timely enough manner to
compete against AT&T.
The Bebook Pure is designed to be solely an e-reader
without all the frills and gimmicks of other
competing devices.
I wonder what could happen if the Big Five publishers of the Anglo - Saxon world banded together like this to form an Alliance to defy Amazon, produce their own eReaders, develop their own software, and build up a robust ecosystem, to directly
compete with Amazon, whom they so loathe yet can't live
without... Off course the
devices, software, and ecosystem would have to be absolutely top notch to make people actually consider leaving Amazon (the Big Five might want to capitalise on AudioBooks by making eReaders that allow you to plug in a headphone).
The problem for
competing tablets is that
without contracts, the
devices are simply priced too high from a consumer's perspective.
So given that there's the same or similar number of people claiming for an injury each year (albeit the number who are doing it online, indeed more and more from mobile
devices, is still increasing), and given that competitors in the PI space online have continually increasing investment to meet
competing higher media prices (eg Google Adwords is becoming more expensive for personal injury keywords — in the States some keywords eg «car crash attorney» ones are over $ 500 per click
without any guarantee of making that a converted enquiry), and given more entrants into the market each year, pressures for many PI firms at the moment are understandably intense.
And it has a dual camera system that is meant to
compete with other flagship
devices without adding any thickness to the phone.
«Selling refurbished iPhones is one way for Apple to
compete without having to produce a
device that compromises on features or components.»
When the iPhone 5 was released
without the wireless charging feature found in
competing Android and Windows phones at the time, Apple's Phil Schiller argued that «having to create another
device you have to plug into the wall is actually, for most situations, more complicated».
A smartwatch
without apps won't be able to
compete with Apple Watch and Android Wear
devices, which have full app stores.