Sentences with phrase «out of the hardware market»

The high toll of failures past and the looming shadow of the PS2 eventually forced Sega out of the hardware market altogether.

The Dreamcast launched in 1998 by January 2001 Sega announced that they were getting out of the hardware market.

Not exact matches

Tony Key, a Ubisoft marketing director, stated that that «Rainbow 6 got caught in the transition of going to next - gen and essentially we're figuring out «well, are we making the right game for the right hardware systems?»»

Among the dozens of hype reels, hardware breakdowns, marketing buzzwords and game announcements, a few things stood out.

When the Nook HD and Nook HD + came out they did not do so well in the market and these products signaled the end of hardware profit.

Amazon has driven most of the competition out of the e-reader market because the Seattle company can afford to sell their hardware as cheap as possible, knowing they can make it up with e-book sales.

Dumping the hardware sales gets B&N out of a market fight they can not win in the long run.

Considering the loss that Amazon is taking on each of these, basically betting that they'll be able to make a profit off them at some unspecified point in the future (after a few hardware interations, after they've driven competitors out (which is unlikely at this early in the tablet market, etc), Amazon is going to find that it's a bigger liability then an asset.

I had anticipated that the Kindle Voyage would clearly standout as the best ebook reader on the market this year given all the pre-release hype and the premium price tag Amazon placed on it, along with all the hardware upgrades — the 300 PPI screen, the PagePress sensors and haptic feedback, the auto - brightness sensor, the flush screen and thinner design — but the Kindle Voyage doesn't knock it out of the park like I thought it would, and it leaves the door open for other devices like the new Kobo Aura H2O.

A mid-range Android phone like this would have been an interesting choice for consumers priced out of the premium market, and in turn, helped the company's sagging hardware division.

Typically Amazon has brought out a new version of its Kindle hardware at least once per calendar year, and often it'll release updates mid-year that include spec bumps, or neat market - specific features like last October's Paperwhite 3 «Manga Model» for Japan.

Though the operating system probably won't launch until Q3 or Q4 of the year, the major tablet makers will look to a head start on the market by rolling out the latest and greatest Windows tablet PC hardware.

Nathan Hull is Chief Business Development Officer at Mofibo, Europe's success story in the world of eBook subscription models, Nathan's role is to identify the markets in which Mofibo will roll out as well as establishing relationships with media, telco and hardware partners, and negotiating terms with publishers and authors.

«This is a new service that they are rolling out at the end of June, as an app, on their upcoming hardware,» said Lynly Schambers, Group Product Marketing Manager, Adobe.

Home is where the price action is: When the market was falling out of bed last week, home furnishings retailer RH (RH), formerly known as Restoration Hardware, was quietly gaining ground and looking like it wanted to turn its most - of - March consolidation into a round - ish swing low.

The retail market for Windows PC games gradually dried out in the early 2000s, as the benefit of not having to pay a platform holder to publish a game was offset by piracy, usability problems present with non-standard hardware and retailers like GameStop putting emphasis on the used console game market (GameStop does not buy and sell used Windows PC games).

If you're in the market for something that you can hook up to your television to play on the big screen before taking the same hardware and games on a flight across the country, you don't have a lot of other options out there.

As previously stated, the Xbox One X is an absolute monster when it comes to hardware as it features the fastest graphical processor out of all the consoles that are currently on the market, offering up to 326 GB / sec bandwidth memory, which is quite mind - blowing.

Backwards compatibility is nice and all, but the idea that it can make up for these new consoles coming out rapidly with games that don't work — or don't work as well — on older hardware and somehow keep everyone included is just some marketing sleight of hand.

As the largest gaming market today, mobile offers accessibility for games that might normally require expensive or out - of - date hardware.

Based on what we currently know about the Steam Machines that are coming out, they seem to offer nothing new, in terms of hardware and prices, than the many small form factor PCs that have already been out in the market, running Windows, for quite some time.

BLU, a mobile phone vendor out of Miami, Florida, specializes in refitting Chinese phones with new hardware and software to make them appealing to the US market, then selling them at budget prices.

Independent tester of all claims USB, Nathan K, known previously for testing out the chargers on the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P and for educating users on how non-compliant USB Type - C chargers can damage your hardware, found that the marketing material on the Google Pixel was a bit misleading on what it promised and what the product delivered.

Apart from an indomitable set of hardware, the Korean conglomerate this time, though, has also included a range of components that will help it stick out a mile from the overcrowded market.

The hardware keeps the Sony Xperia X Compact out of the flagship space, but it's still one of the best devices smaller than five inches on the market.

They completely pulled out of this market, leaving lesser - known hardware makers to fill the gap with cheap Windows tablets.

Samsung, according to my opinion, makes great hardware and their phones offer all sorts of functionality to please a main stream market which of course results in a quite heave software that probably, like pointed out in the article, takes time to finalize until it's ready to be pushed out to the consumers.

... is all very true and a good example is the number of press releases coming out everyday with new innovations in hardware, software, firmware, markets, blogs, and other PR worthy announcements about projects related to the Android OS.

Sony Xperia X Compact The hardware keeps the Sony Xperia X Compact out of the flagship space, but it's still one of the best devices smaller than five inches on the market.

Most carriers want to bundle apps or have a unique way of marketing a smartphone, but HMD believes its Nokia 6, Nokia 5, and Nokia 3 smartphones will stand out from the competition with solid hardware design, pure Android, and no gimmicky features.

Designed to drive pricing under the $ 50 mark in order to make smartphones more attainable in developing markets, Android Oreo (Go edition)- otherwise known as Android Go - strips out some of the platform's bloat in order to preserve usability on lower - spec hardware.

While Samsung's Gear Live is admittedly around two years old — which could be partly the reason behind skipping the update — Deidre Richardson of Tizen Experts points out that the smartwatch market is not yet as fast - paced as the smartphone market (when it comes to both software and hardware releases) and adds that the LG G Watch R, which is on the update list, is over two years old.

Ara's potential, I pointed out, hinged on the content of its modules, the freshness of its hardware compared to what's available in the mass market, and just how flexible its bays would actually turn out to be.

«With the roll out of the BEAUTY software, Elliptic Labs is preparing to disrupt if not utterly gut a multi-million dollar hardware market.»

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