But manufacturers believe that as the scale of the industry increases and the technology improves, a major tipping point will come within the next decade: cost superiority.
Yet the manufacturers believe these concerns can be overcome.
The result is a tool that everyone from gear users to buyers to manufacturers can believe in.
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"TV manufacturers strongly believe in 3D and are driving its cost downward, but its value to consumers relies strongly on the availability of quality material to watch, " Gray concluded.
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The company is initially targeting manufacturers who believe the power savings that can be achieved will more than make up for the premium prices Transphorm will charge for its devices.
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By working hand-in-hand with one of the world's most respected manufacturers, we believe we have a great opportunity to create a new standard for mobile customer care.
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The NRA and the gun manufacturers they support obviously believe their guns are vital tools in our wars, and important instruments in protecting our freedoms, something I agree with.
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The big caveat to all of these findings and others is that, while decent correlations have materialized in a few credible studies, we still do not have definitive proof that fish oil is the incredible brain elixir its manufacturers would have us believe it is.
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F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone does not believe major car manufacturers would quit the sport over the standard engine issue.
It seems hard to believe in this economy, but some manufacturers are having a hard time finding skilled employees to work in their factories.
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According to DigiTimes, Nokia will produce the tablet with the help of Qualcomm and Compal Electronics. (Qualcomm provides chips to most smartphone and tablet manufacturers.) Taiwan-based supply chain makers believe that Nokia will unveil the tablet at the 2013 Mobile World Congress, which is scheduled to take place in late February in Barcelona, Spain.
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While the Asian tablet manufacturers have very low readings in this survey I do believe that the quality of their tablets has markedly improved over the past year.
Second, we believe the company could expand its MFi program that licenses hardware manufacturers the ability to make products that connect to iOS devices.
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