Computerworld:
Samsung has now announced 11 different Android tablets since the start of 2014. Here’s the thing: Choice is beneficial only when it means something. Flooding consumers with a billion overlapping variations of the same basic concept does little more than cause confusion and dilute your brand.
Put another way, when faced with that menagerie of confusingly named and difficult to distinguish options, what’s a typical consumer going to do? You guessed it: Buy an iPad.
Amazing – and not in a good way.
It’s not that Samsung announces different tablets — they are announcing the latest version based upon available parts. That’s the difference between Apple and the other hardware producers. Its quite literally so that no two devices are the same. By the way their methods haven’t hurt them yet.
I had once bought a HP notebook and then tried to obtain the same exact model so that I could reduce support time. As far as naming is concerned HP is better at maintaing base product lines, but it turns out that there is variation based upon parts. One month part X is supplied by company Y the next is a part from company Z. That’s why driver support is so terrible.
I wonder how long is the software support for those tablets? Will the 2013 models ever get the new android that is coming out this summer?
“I had once bought a HP notebook and then tried to obtain the same exact model so that I could reduce support time.”
Get. A. Mac.
It’s easy to tell when a tech company has no idea what to do. They try a bunch of things, release many products to see which one(s) succeed(s), wander far from their core competency in an attempt to follow “hot” tech trends, etc. (E.g. Samsung with their shotgun approach to mobile, and Google with their self-driving cars and robots and Glass, etc.)
When a tech company knows exactly what to do, they do that thing. Exactly. And it’s successful. (E.g. Apple.)
Announced or actually sold. Seems like they announce a lot of stuff that somehow never makes it to the shelf, something else gets announced instead
I’m kinda appreciating Apple’s “all the wood behind one arrow” technique. I can think of two reasons why Samsung is chumming on a weekly basis. First, it harkens back to the catalog companies that would send out a catalog atleast twice a week, in the hopes that you would be prompted by its showing up in your mailbox, to buy something from them. Secondly, it could be that they throw up so much chaff that you have absolutely no notion whether you have outdated equipment or not. Especially with little differentiation between the releases. It’s hard enough recalling what macbook air model I have, without there being hourly releases of new hardware. Typically people underestimate the time they have owned stuff they like.
I think we know the answer to that. It does not matter to most Android users as post sale software updates do not matter to them. If they did. They would be purchasing iPads. So more than likely they will not get any software updates.
Yep! Exactly!