What makes a niche device different?

hey..first one here!! :)

Anyhow… about your question… niche product for me.. is all about going and capturing certain market where no one else dare to go. A very good example of this is your blog. Yes, people commenting on your blog have their own tech blog, I myself have my own, so does a dozen of people reading your blog. But the Yugatech is a niche because it focus mainly on the tech news, gadgets and “whatever” IT in the Philippines. Other have niche for cellphones or mobile gadgets only.

Another good example is the apple ipad, they are creating a niche that is not there yet. For now we may not know that that niche is but once they let the monkey out of the cage, we’ll know what it is. Be it for gaming, a new way to read newspapers or magazine, watch videos or even communicate, just imagine a 2nd or 3rd gen of ipad with camera, good speaker and a mic.

So we can say that a niche device is a device that was created to capture certain market or create a martket like no other device can.

Salesforce and linux is. These are niche products, they’re not for everyone but its for you. You will know how important it is.

I do hope I made mysel clear… that’s what you get when blogging without sleep!

For me, a niche device is more like a novelty item. I do agree with Paula that it does not have to be expensive or cutting edge.

By “novelty” I mean it is still functional, but there are other devices that may do the same thing (even better).

However, there is nothing wrong with these niche devices. It is all about having the resources (money). If I had the money to spend, and a certain niche gadget suits my fancy, I would buy it, maybe even if I won’t use it much.

Of course the iPad is a good example. There has been a lot of buzz lately. It does a lot of things you could normally do with your smartphone, desktop PC, or your laptop/netbook. Some people may need it, some people won’t. But I bet even critics would be glad if they were given one anyway. I personally don’t like the iPad for many reasons, but I admit, it does open a new market in mobile computing and media/content creation and consumption.

One distinct thing I found on iPad.
Watch this vid http://bit.ly/b9PDw2
Smashed by the homeless guy who can buy pairs of iPads for their girls and for their hobbies.

Niche products/services are for smart entrepreneurs to take advantage of.

It has something to do with personal taste more than economic facts. Some people just get to “like” a certain product and decided he/she should have one. If it happened to be expensive, well we can always save for it. But it should not be an obsession, either.

A line has to be drawn somewhere especially on “nice to haves but not really a must have product”. That’s a good one, @superdan.

@illusionado: I dunno if that video is fake. I do want to comment about how they swing the bat. They swing like girls! Parang nanghihinayang silang wasakin yung iPad. LMAO!

@zaxx it is just my opinion. that’s why sir abe titled it with a ? mark.

obviously sir abe would review that iPad as soon as he received it. i know that people needs an iPad to supply their necessities, but we should look at the other side.let’s be efficient during these days and that’s what steve jobs is not doing and teaching to americans.it is like “hey Apple fans here I am again but this super cool steve jobs gadget, and forget ur macbooks, ipod touch, iphones, netbooks or desktops”.

this whole niche devices have filled almost but not all the comments with Apple iPad’s haters and lover’s sentiments…

why the hell do people despise something like that?

Apple will answer it for you – here is what they have to say:

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“As for everything else, it’s not about the features — it’s about the experience. You just have to try it to see what i mean.”
-Phil Schiller (iPad)

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“In many ways, it’s the things that are not there that we are most proud of.”
-Jon Ive (iPad)

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>> what do you think Jon Ive means by this..didnt understand? hehe :)

..respect to Apple if they can sell a product that no one has ever managed to sell well before, and respect to them if they can make it work well…said by some apple fanboy haha

i look at the other side and i see joojoo tablet (currently the iPad competitor that already out in the Market) being reviewed by the tech guy from Engadget and their verdicts says this:

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Wrap-up

There are just so many things we wish Fusion Garage did differently with the JooJoo. Even putting aside the fact that Apple’s $499 iPad brings more to the table than just web browsing, the JooJoo is less portable, has a worse (if larger) screen, is unintuitive to use, and ships with half-baked software. We commend the start-up on its nice piece of hardware design, but until the software is given some much-needed love and the price is seriously reevaluated we simply cannot recommend this tablet. To add insult to injury, Apple’s entry level iPad provides a much more seamless and feature-packed experience, and there are plenty of $199-ish ARM-based tablets just around the corner. We told you it was terrible timing. The one shining light we can see is that Fusion Garage has actually managed to finish and build this thing, which is a lot more than can be said for the dozens of ARM / Tegra / Fairy dust-powered, Android / Linux / CE-based tablet prototypes we’ve seen in the wild.
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1-0 in favor of Apple iPad
next competitors please… :)

Got 5/6 yes. Dont have a smartphone yet.

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