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Is the 3ds worth it

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Nerdr| 2 Comments

Here I discuss some of the main points to consider when buying a Nintendo 3ds if you already have a ds.

Here are the top things to seriously consider if you want to get a Nintendo 3DS – Cosmo Black! OR MAYBE THE Nintendo 3DS – Aqua Blue?

Price – The current price is $249.99.  Thats quite a high price, but then the 3DS was only released about a week ago!  Even so, this price does seem quite significant, especially against the competition of the ipod touch.  Breaking it down and looking at previous Nintendo console cycles, we can quite easily see Nintendo like to base their console output on 5 year cycles.  This means they bring out a new product (like the nintendo 4ds say!) every five years.  The easy maths then amounts to:

$250/5 years = $50 a year.

So buying it right now works out to be $50 a year.

Now thats about $5 a month.  Not Bad!.

However, I think the price will drop fairly quickly as no one seems to be buying and the games are getting average at best reviews from the main game review websites.  I would suspect it will Continue reading →

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Buying Ipad 2 already have Ipad 1

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Nerdr| Leave a comment

buying an Ipad 2 when you already have an Ipad 1?

Someone asked me today, Should they buy an Apple Ipad 2 if they already own the Ipad 1? My advice to them was a fairly clear no.  Admittedly, it was not a 100% clear answer of NO.  Just a pretty sure its a no on the buy.  Here are the reasons I gave:

  • Ipad 3 coming in September with possibly rumored to be retina display.  Thats just 6 months away to the ipad 3.  At the moment, the Ipad 2 display is a significantly lower resolution than what it should be as far as i’m concerned.  It needed to have the retina display, but apple and steve jobs decided not to go for it.  It just really seems like the Ipad 2 is Continue reading →

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Ipad 2 Ebay statistics

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Nerdr| Leave a comment

We now have some statistics direct from Ebay headquarters regarding the Apple Ipad 2.  Heres the rundown of the stats covering 2 weeks following the US first exposure sale date of Friday, 11th of March:

  • 35% of Ipad 2 sales on Ebay were to overseas buyers.  Leaving 65% for internal to the US buyers.  Contrast this with the exact opposite last year on release of the Ipad 1 which is no doubt caused by the 6 week delay in new Ipad orders this year.
  • Total Ipad 2 sales over the 2 week period amounted to 12,000.
  • Most popular model for purchase was the Ipad 2 16GB WIFI with no 3g model (the one i’d buy!).
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Diggs version 4 success story

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Nerdr| Leave a comment

Digg didn’t fail it succeeded

Many have claimed the version 4 redesign of Digg.com was a disaster. I say otherwise and heres why:

Under version 3 of the website, they clearly had the numbers. They had an at times frankly enormous amount of traffic and yet an incredibly small amount of advertising revenue in comparison. I’d suggest this was for two reasons.

Firstly, the users of Digg were advanced computer geeks and teenagers. These guys had learnt over time to click only on those things worth clicking. They stay for the Continue reading →

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Color.com privacy concerns

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Nerdr| Leave a comment

For those who have not heard, color.com have released an app.  Let me tell you what it does.  It lets you take a picture at the same time others are taking a picture around you and joins them together.  Sorta.

Wait, is that it Nerdr?  well, not quite.  You see the reason its major news (other than their significant online marketing budget) is the $41 MILLION dollars (Yes, thats dollar dollars for you English and finance majors – but I bet you Art majors didn’t even bat an eyelid!)  they secured to fund  the whole thing from none other than seqoia capital investments.  Yes, thats the same Seqoia capital investments venture capital firm that bought in to Google before it was the “in thing”.  Back in the altavista days of search engines.

And now they’re in to Color.com.  What does that now mean?  With the significant market power this venture capital firm now has at its disposal, with some powerful friends in very high places, it is clear color.com Continue reading →

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