Agiliti:

Everybody goes to China to give specifications, including Apple and HP, even the US 2012 olympic uniforms are made in China

There's absolutely no way that thing can be competitive in both price and quality if it was made in Naija... koboko haram boys sef fit bomb factory unto western technology tins

Maybe the name means something in his language, (it means "to give" in mine), if so ride on. Fujitsu is not the most welcoming name, and Asus just plain sounds local, but it hasn't stopped those brands from going global.

Ejiné: Only a JJC would be singing praises because of this, and that's the plain truth.
Please, tell me, what is innovative about this? Isn't this the same thing Chinese people have been designing for a long time now? All he did was basically buy up those unbranded products from those guys and name his 'Inye', and you guys are here singing and shouting.
Tell me, isn't it running on the same Google Android tech?
Any Alaba guy who sees this would laugh his arse off cuz it's nothing new and they've been doing it for a long time now - Buy the substandard toy from the Chinkos, slap your brand name on it, finish!
Why una dey gullible like this?

And don't even get me started on that hilarious prize tag of 350 dollars! LMFAO!
Nexus and Kindle cost far cheaper (200 dollars) so what is the fuss here?

Chei, this guy don carry una brain play Ludo.

dlox147: this is great news

TCD: $350? BlackBerry playbook tablet costs less than that, Google's nexus tablet is $200, amazon Kindle fire $200. And we should buy onyinye Chinese tablets for $350? OYO

remmyz:

to the best of my knowledge, Apple does nt have a manufacturing plant. All they do is develop there software nd hardware specification. Foxcom is d name of the company where ipad is been manufactured in china. Adepoju also designed his own tablet which was manufactured in china also, preloaded with android os and some locally made application.

antitpiah:

But this is not HP. And definitely not anywhere close to Apple, not in this lifetime.





Meaning Nigerians are dumb and lazy?

We cant even be competitive with China?

We are not talking of a highly educated work-force here, that needs to be well maintained? No retirement benefits. No sick pay. No vacation pay. No retirement fund. No minimum wage; as a matter of fact you can afford to not pay Nigerian workers for 6 months and still have them arrested if they dont show up for work. No legacy cost ( This is what killed GM). Humongous tax breaks; MTN didnt pay any tax in their first ten years of operation. Very low electricity cost; in fact, if they dont pay for power, like many Nigerians do, no one will say anything and life goes on. Huge unemployment; meaning, there is ready made college educated manpower ready and willing to do anything, for chicken change.

And in spite of all these advantages that we have over other well regulated but low paying economies, we still cant compete with China? There is no hope then. We might as well lie down and wait for asteroid Apophis to kill us all.

Sisi_Kill: Awwwwww! This is sooooo inspiring!!

Honestly, I wanna cry right now. . .who woulda thunk that in the midst of so many uglies, something beautiful can still come out.

I hope the Tablet sells!!

oche_ejemb: You guys are so clever!!! Where are the Ipad, Nexus, Galaxy and almost every other thing in this world manufactured..in the US? in Finland? Instead of supporting your own, you are here making judgements as if you have ever done anything worth recognition.As for me, I certainly would buy the tablet, if it is cheaper but as good as any other tablet. Especially if it comes with a warranty valid in Nigeria, and can be fixed by a trained technician in Nigeria.
I certainly see how scores of Nigerians can benefit from this low-cost, made-for-Nigeria tablet computer. Go ahead and buy your 75 dollar tablet and see if it can even connect to the Internet

AjanleKoko: Judging from the comments on here, it's pretty obvious that the tablet can't compete in the market. More likely it will go the way of other products that were better engineered and marketed, such as the Blackberry Playbook. Even the likes of Huawei and ZTE have pushed tablets (and failed) in the Nigerian market.

The reason is very simple: the target market (aspirational gadget users) will never buy this. I'd recommend the following for our budding entrepreneur.

1. Find a more accessible target market. I think his best bet is the education sector. Most schools are now big on computing.
2. Work on bringing the cost down. India has developed a $35 Android tab, for their educational sector. He should look at a cost somewhere between $100 and $150, all-in. He can get that easily in China, there are readymade products he can customize.
3. Use direct marketing. Trying to spend money targeting the consumer market with this product is not going to give him any traction. If he targets the plethora of private schools in Lagos alone, he might ship up to 10,000 units.
4. Bundle with a killer app/apps. The tablet on its own can't sell. If he's targeting education, it should be a bunch of educational apps that are exclusively available on his device. Even the device OEMs are going this route.
5. Tie up with a bank for finance. If the likes of HP and Samsung can do this (the old days of laptop financing), he should at least find a micro-finance institution that can back him. They can sell a package to schools that would include 3-6 months financing, upgrade options, etc.

6. The guy should hire a top notch technology marketing consultant. Someone like me

texazzpete:

That's the point. he's a Nigerian...he got the tablet for around that $120 - 150 margin. He intends to sell at a massively inflated price to maximize profit. Asking him to slash prices will not work...his 'winning' strategy is to brand this chinese clone as a 'Nigerian' tablet to grab sales from gullible Nigerians and parastatals/government agencies.

but then again, Nigerians were m0r0nic enough to buy the cheap Starcomms 'MyPad' chinese clone for 70K from starcomms...

kolexy:

It will interest you to know that Samsung, and other asian tablet makers also run on google android. The guy has not claimed to be an inventor, but an entrepreneur.

Mrkuvuki: He's just doing same thing electronics traders in iweka. Road and alaba are doing..its just that him dey involve socia media and packaging...All join Sha

texazzpete: BUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

He actually means to sell this rebadged Chinese tablet for $350?!!!

Put things in Perspective

64GB Blackberry playbook = $300
16GB Google Nexus 7 (Quad Core CPU + GPU, 1280x800 IPS screen, Android 4.1) = $249
Asus Transformer Prime = $450
Asus Transformer = $399
16GB iPad 2 = $399


Why are people so eager to throw money away? This is a rebadge of any number of cheap, generic Chinese clone tablets off Alibaba which you can buy for around $179 in bulk. Why would any sensible Nigerian buy this for $350?

Ejiné:

Chei. Blink182 even beat me to it.

engineerd: ON WHAT PLANET DOES AN IPAD COST $700??

4llerbuntu: My only source of concern for him is that he is taking too much for granted, like assuming we are all retards or something. China is not some esoteric place anymore, countless pple go there for this same business. so what is the point in trying to do business at a price point thats patently ridiculous and will only lead you to fail.



if you doubt me i suggest you try googling these chinese tabs. matter of fact, there are marketers even here on NL who sell these same products. one tried to sell me one ainol with IPS screen for 40k. as far as i can tell, he definitely must either have sold it for less, or is still with it!!!


when you want to buy these tabs even without going to china, you get[b] unit [/b]prices online ranging from $120-200 . and as usual, the more quantity u buy, the cheaper it is, going as low as $80. and believe me those specs are mere words on paper, whatever specs you want you will get at ridiculous price points.


there is a large market waiting to be cornered there, you go hunting for a decent quality manufacturer, you get the products at a compelling price point. you import and be smart. with your branding, double the cost as profit makes sense AND UNDERCUTS EVERYBODY GENUINELY.

how can you intend to sell chinese tablets for $350 when even the chinese themselves will sell same for $150.

Add the fact that the quality is actually hit and miss. there is no support for them after purchase

KNOWLEDGE AND BUSINESS ACUMEN ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE


Oh and BTW, i think that BBC article was done in 2009. obviously this dude is one of us in this forum hence the periodic revival.

DUDE GET A LARGE STORE, GET SOME PUBLICITY, EMPLOY ONE OR TWO SOFTWARE ENGINEERS WHO DEVELOP FOR ANDROID WHO CAN ACTUALLY WORK ON THOSE TABS, TWEAK AND IMPROVE THEM, SO AT LEAST YOU CAN CLAIM TO HAVE R & D AND PUSH MINOR UPDATES.

AND SELL THOSE THINGS UNDER YOUR NAME FOR MUCH MUCH LOWER PRICES. COUNTLESS CV AND ALABA BOYS WILL BE WILLING TO BE SUB-DEALERS.
how can your tab be more expensive than a BB Playbook!!!!


For funding, if you are indeed business savvy, you will get it. its not simple, but your primary problem is being actually able to sell them. if you can demonstrate that, you will get investors

take chinese fones as an example. despite those mad specs why have they not competed with the iphone?

ikechukz: So expensive.even chinese guys dey sell tablet of $75.