{"id":370,"date":"2011-06-25T12:17:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T10:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lostmind.de\/blog\/2011\/06\/25\/der-wert-eines-prototyps-2\/"},"modified":"2012-10-28T06:45:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T04:45:03","slug":"the-value-of-a-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lostmind.de\/blog\/en\/2011\/06\/25\/the-value-of-a-prototype\/","title":{"rendered":"The value of a prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Google announced to give away a predecessor (called &#8222;CR-48&#8220;) for the coming generation of notebooks with ChromeOS for free in December 2010, we could sense a significant amount of excitement even here in Germany. But that stopped suddenly when it turned out that this prototype would only be available in the USA (Google speaks about a charge of around 60.000 devices).<\/p>\n<p>After Google IO went down this year those notebooks loaded with ChromeOS are now officially called &#8222;Chromebooks&#8220; and should be available in Germany starting next week.<\/p>\n<p>But what if a Chromebook &#8222;CR-48&#8220; was going to appear here on eBay.de?<\/p>\n<p>Samsung charges you with 449.00 EUR for its Chromebook &#8222;Series 5&#8220; with an UMTS-module. This is in no way representative, but how would the market (via eBay) set the price for a nowhere-to-buy Chromebook? Look for yourself:<\/p>\n<p><a
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decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-134\" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Chromebook &quot;CR-48&quot; bei eBay.de\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lostmind.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/chromebook.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"902\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lostmind.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/chromebook.png 902w, https:\/\/www.lostmind.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/chromebook-300x124.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my opinion this price is very realistic. Why? Google wants to get into the netbook game and wants to provide a better, more functional and secure alternative to Windows on these devices. With the gap between current netbook prices and the price of the &#8222;Series 5&#8220; Chromebook it will be very hard to reach that goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Google announced to give away a predecessor (called &#8222;CR-48&#8220;) for the coming generation of notebooks with ChromeOS for free in December 2010, we could sense a significant amount of excitement even here in Germany. But that stopped suddenly when &hellip; <a
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