Will Rohans Notion Ink Adam take a bite out of Steves Apple?

Right now the cover is peeling off pixel by pixel as Rohan and co tease a captive and spellbound audience eager to pre order the Notion Ink Adam . The waiting is torture , according to some eager posters it is already available and yet others are screaming it is not. What Rohan and Notion Ink have to avoid is falling into the niche fan sales trap , that the joojoo , and later exopc and wetab did . Supply must reach non techies and non fans , that is what Steve and Apple managed to do ,reach and supply people like myself who never touched an Apple product before iPad ,and here months later I am hooked and typing this entry on one. What worries me with the Adam , is the teaser campaign ,the initial lock of preorders to forum posters , this is the Christmas sale season you want to reach every person you can ,  limiting preorders is going to throw fans into frenzied states ,just check the blog, every one who cannot preorder will be obliged to turn to a rival tablet whether Samsung Galaxy Tab or the Apple iPad .We are also firmly now in iPad 2 speculation season , and if the usual suspects are to be believed , the 2nd coming of the iPad will be a truly evangelical experience. So Notion Ink is late to the game ,with an excellent product that I could not live without but then I am one of those frenzied fans , I can take the tease. Unless the order system is open to all and soon ,and there are only a couple of weeks of sale time left,  delivery over this holiday may prove difficult and Samsung and Apple will own the tablet market.


But really this close to Christmas , its only Grinches that want to withhold presents ,and I am sure Rohan and Notion Inks carefully managed marketing campaign isn`t intended to be mean , but you would think that the latest and most promising  iPad competitor would have borrowed from Apples successful launch with worldwide  preorders open to everyone and avoided its rivals failures such as the exopc restricting preorders to forum members.. 


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Notion Ink Adam Death of a tablet part 5 :OTA update bricks all Adam slates with Warm Regards from Notion Ink

As long predicted Notion Ink lost this Slate War has , for some sidious Notion Ink minion issued an OTA update , the  Adam  equivalent of a Sith Lords order 66, and obedient Adam tablets throughout the galaxy promptly bricked themselves. It was if a dozen Tablets and their owners were suddenly silenced .....

You cannot make this stuff up , around the web it has been reported that the Notion Ink Adam basically kills itself after updating . Well they did promise you a mystery feature !  Apparently there is a geek friendly work around,but the ability to update is now shazbot . Should you buy one after this latest fiasco ,Hell no you shouldn't have bought one before this fiasco, well what can I say it is hard to figure when I burst out in laughter on reading the  latest stories re the Adam committing ritual digital download suicide  The Adam is dead, no really ,avoid it all costs. And this will not be the last fiasco from Notion Ink  , my Notion Ink Adam Death of a Tablet series seems likely to run and run ...


Really people a tablet is like any other piece of PC hardware , give us the components and we can all build  better hardware than the utter tripe the Adam has become. Give us the option and we will install the cpu gpu os software and screen of our choice like we do with desktops . For technophobes there are around 1000 sounder alternatives than the Notion Ink Adam . 


Well people laughed when Steve Jobs(get well soon) said of upcoming tablets that many would be dead on arrival .Today I find myself laughing with him as  Notion Ink has literally produced a tablet the Adam that is for many of it's few owners dead on arrival.


But wait has striking down the Adam tablet made it even more powerful?


A New Hope: although Notion Ink cannot get their own OS Eden or own tablet running , it seems every other tablet under the sun is about to get its own version of Eden , xdadevelopers have it running on a Viewsonic tablet: 

What next? is there any hope for Notion Ink or Adam , find out in Death of A Tablet part 6 , coming to this blog soon , I kid you not , I have a bad feeling about this tablet! I wonder how many episodes there will be before this saga is concluded?

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Notion Ink Adam Death of A Tablet part 4 : it ships with its own coffin?

Facing 1000s of rival  tablet pcs with superior tech   Notion Ink have decided to reveal their secret weapon . How are they going to take on the army of Honeycombe , Windows 7, iPad 2 , Blackberry et al tablets?Answer with the standout feature : No literally with a stand , out of CARDBOARD , folding from the black card board case which frankly looks like the coffin you should bury this folly in. 

So as expected Notion Inkers have delays on their deliveries  , Notion Ink desperate to massage the sheep egos of its loyal fans , have released some groovy pics of what I hope is not the fabled mystery feature : a card board box stand !

now any one who has used any tablet will know the back will run hot , the tablet will carry considerable weight , and frankly your wunderkind not Honeycombe , much delayed an over hyped Adam , if you can get one is going to look , how do I put it kindly , totally .... c..like this :

So is it safe ? is it safe? as the dentist asked the jogger? I bet you are glad you sank $600 into that now ? 

Seriously avoid the Notion Ink Adam at all costs , the Notion Ink sheep are even baa baaing about an Adam 2 this year ... So even more incentive to chose from the army of tablets that are around now and coming round the mountain to steam roller the folly that the Adam has become into oblivion .

Although if you are into papercraft ...or cardboard , find shoe boxes inspirational , go for it . No not really the Adam is dead tech , avoid at all costs !

It is great to see independent talent developing tech , but it remains to be seen if startups like Notion Ink can do that which makes USA , Nihon, Korean , Taiwanese giants dominant in the tech industry  , that is learn to take criticism as feedback and act on it . And in today's Internet  powered world , where people can see through bs , and discuss it in seconds in their own forums this is absolutely essential and this is where Notion Ink and Fusion Garage before them failed . 

No other tablet manufacturer has on the surface been so in touch with its audience than Notion Ink , but they still managed to produce a tablet with the wrong OS , wrong screen resolution , wrong payment model , you can without a penny leaving your bank preorder with any credit card the  soon to be released  asus eee slate ep121 , but people have paid upfront through great difficulty for the Adam which has still to be released!  How could they get it so wrong , maybe the arrogance of youth , but critically not listening to the needs of their users , you can get away with that if your product is unique like the iPad was with a market to itself , but 1 year on with literally 1000s of choices for tablet fans , not listening and providing for the needs of your users will by the final nail in Adams cardboard coffin, and I do in no way consider the warm regards almost condescending spoon feeding of the Notion Ink Blog community in any way listening or responding to feedback . 


Throughout the year long folly that is the Notion Ink Blog , for it is the blog that is more substantial than tablet , Rohan/Notion Ink  have released info when THEY wanted , released tech details when THEY wanted , released the tablet when THEY wanted , responded to comments when THEY wanted,introduced preorders when THEY wanted ,with the payment method THEY wanted  ,and are even delivering the Adam when THEY want  , so where in that year long blog drama has Notion INK ever given the consumer they wanted?  Much negative feedback has been censored or removed , and this is where they went wrong , instead of deleting it or moderating it they should have listened . 

If Notion Ink fans are honest they have been led round by the nose , and frankly when you stand up your Adam , if it works as no one has actually used one outside of controlled conditions , you are going to feel slightly used as you read the instructions to assemble your paper craft stand....So The Notion Ink Adam will be  the first casualty of 2011 in the slate war . 

What interests me most is if Notion Ink do the other great thing that all the major tech companies , even the mighty Apple ,  have had to do , get up from failure , learn from it and turn it into future success? Based on my experience of studying them over the last year I doubt it very much. 

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