{"id":51,"date":"2012-11-15T14:04:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T21:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ravisandhu\/?p=51"},"modified":"2012-11-15T14:14:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T21:14:47","slug":"google-new-products-with-sleek-prices-bring-a-new-era-to-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ravisandhu\/2012\/11\/15\/google-new-products-with-sleek-prices-bring-a-new-era-to-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Google New Products with sleek prices, bring a new era to technology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few months the products that <a href=\"google.ca\">Google<\/a> has been releasing have \u00a0brought them to become a major player in the electronics market. As Omar El Akkad said in his article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/technology\/business-technology\/googles-new-growth-engine-hardware\/article5258029\/\">&#8220;Almost overnight, a company best known for its Web-search algorithms has made a big move into the hardware market&#8221;\u00a0<\/a>. This being said, Google has released 4 new products in the last few months alone. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/nexus\/\">nexus 7<\/a> a 7 inch tablet for only $199, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/nexus\/10\/\">nexus 10<\/a> a 10 inch tablet that I think could possibly out perform the ipad for $399, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/chrome\/devices\/chromebooks.html#ss-cb\">chromebook<\/a> googles own interpretation of a ultrabook for $199, and finally their new and improved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/nexus\/4\/\">g<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/nexus\/4\/\">alaxy phone<\/a> that has a price of $309.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Nexus4 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.knowyourmobile.com\/siteimage\/scale\/0\/0\/345760.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I personally think that their prices and product are unbeatable for the product. The nexus 4, their new galaxy phone, is almost better or on par than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/global\/galaxys3\/\">samsung galaxy s3<\/a>\u00a0in every way. It has a better interal specs, a more crisp screen and almost half the value. With their price confirmed and is fully unlocked allowing it to be used with any carrier around the world.<\/p>\n<p>With these new products and price point I think companies may have to question their current pricing, because\u00a0consumers\u00a0may start to wonder why google products are so much cheaper than theirs. \u00a0What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some information on googles prices:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/google\/9678525\/Google-Nexus-range-battles-Apple-with-low-prices-and-Project-Butter.html<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few months the products that Google has been releasing have \u00a0brought them to become a major player in the electronics market. As Omar El Akkad said in his article &#8220;Almost overnight, a company best known for its Web-search algorithms has made a big move into the hardware market&#8221;\u00a0. This being said, Google &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ravisandhu\/2012\/11\/15\/google-new-products-with-sleek-prices-bring-a-new-era-to-technology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ravisandhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ravisandhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ravisandhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ravisandhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ravisandhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ravisandhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ravisandhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ravisandhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ravisandhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ravisandhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}