In videos showing the service, people make low-price purchases, as they can with the Apple app.
"Making low price the compelling selling proposition isn't necessarily going to work," he said.
Factory prices in apparel and electronics have been declining for at least a decade, pushed down by cheap overseas labor, competition from new suppliers in Asia and Africa and pressure from American companies like Wal-Mart Stores thavehave made low prices their mantra.
Maquiladoras, which are factories making low-price goods for export to the United States, have been badly hurt as buyers in the United States have looked to China for cheaper products.
The executives expected the drug's patent to expire in 2000, which would allow companies to make low-priced generic versions.
Cipla, the Indian drug company that has offered to make low-priced AIDS medicines, said yesterday that it could supply large quantities of ciprofloxacin to the United States.
"This has never been done in a poor country," said Mr. Love, who has been working to try to make low-priced generic versions of brand-name medicines available in many developing countries.
But Dell won't be alone in trying to make low-priced waves in the handheld market.
CE makers have drilled it into our heads that you can make low-priced, high quality electronics.
Drug companies that produce branded products own a lot of the overseas manufacturing facilities that make low-priced drugs, he wrote in 2016.
The first, dubbed Truphone Anywhere enables iPhone users to make low-priced international calls via the GSM network even when they are not connected to Wi-Fi.
