With Samsung looking launch-weary one month into Q2 (at least 8 new products in smartphones and tablets in three months), the time could be right for Apple to extend its low-cost experiment with the iPad, into phones.

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"Any firm that wants to expand at low cost will have to experiment with some form of e-commerce, " says Liu Yuhong, vice director for the computer center in Beijing's Xidan department store.

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The cloud provides a low-cost way for engineers, product developers and even marketing folks to experiment with new ideas and test their feasibility within a short timeframe so that they can quickly move forward with successful ones.

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