Preview: iriver @ CES2008

[clieos]

With 2008 closing in, CES 2008 is also not too far away. The official list of what iriver will be presenting to us at the upcoming CES has been posted online, and there ain't any surprise here: Clix+, Mplayer, NV, P10, Unit2, W7, D30, and D5.

However, not all hope is lost. Rumor from Korea has indicated that there could be as many as 10 new iriver products waiting to be revealed!!!

So, would we finally see a new HD player so many have hoping for?

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[Judge]

Not likely.

[Fuzional]

Originally Posted by Judge

Not likely.

Then we'll have to hope for 16GB flash capacities until they decide to enlighten us with new HDD based units.

[Step666]

Hope away but most of use know better.

iRiver won't unveil 16GB models until most of the competition are onto 32GB and some are even onto 64GB.

[tranceaddict]

Originally Posted by Step666

Hope away but most of use know better.

iRiver won't unveil 16GB models until most of the competition are onto 32GB and some are even onto 64GB.

Pessimist.

[Shorty15c4]

I just want my hands on that P10! If it doesn't come out till April (My B-Day), I'm be gettting a 8GB P2 from Samsung.

[Fuzional]

Originally Posted by Shorty15c4

I just want my hands on that P10! If it doesn't come out till April (My B-Day), I'm be gettting a 8GB P2 from Samsung.

Patience is a vertue. Wait it out. I'm sure you won't be disappointed.

[Step666]

Originally Posted by tranceaddict

Pessimist.

Realist.

The 16GB versions of the Creative Zen and Sansa View are $200 in the US. The 8GB version of the Clix2 is $240.
And there really wasn't that much of a gap between them all reaching the market.

[Fuzional]

Originally Posted by Step666

Realist.

The 16GB versions of the Creative Zen and Sansa View are $200 in the US. The 8GB version of the Clix2 is $240.
And there really wasn't that much of a gap between them all reaching the market.

That's all to do with supply and demand,

Creative has a quite large customer base and it can afford to have lower prices due to its sales numbers.

iriver is the opposite. It has a realitivly low customer base in comparison and to make it a viable business venture they need to up prices to keep themselves out of the red.

[LordMattman]

I want unit2.

[Step666]

Originally Posted by Fuzional

That's all to do with supply and demand,

Creative has a quite large customer base and it can afford to have lower prices due to its sales numbers.

No, that's not how it works.
You lower prices to increase your customer base, you don't just lower them because you already have a lot of customers - if you already have a lot of customers, you leave the price high and make more money.

Anyway, if iRiver are unable to price their products competitively, then that just means that they need to re-evaluate their business model.



But that's all beside the point.
I never said anything about why iRiver are more expensive, just that they are and that it takes them an incredibly long time to get their products to the market, rendering them semi-obsolete by the time they go on sale.

It's a terrible shame, the products themselves are excellent but the way the company is run is quite as great.

[Dexter 0101]

Originally Posted by LordMattman

I want unit2.

I want unit2 too