Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

iPad mini Price of iPad mini poll, three weeks later

Price opinion of iPad mini 3 weeks after its release

  • Greedy Apple!

    Votes: 34 18.5%

  • Priced to protect big iPads / I grudgeingly agree to price

    Votes: 45 24.5%

  • Right price for this hardware

    Votes: 67 36.4%

  • Great price!

    Votes: 11 6.0%

  • Incredible bargin! My dream tablet!

    Votes: 16 8.7%

  • Have not seen it in person to make opinion

    Votes: 2 1.1%

  • Don't give a carp {sic}

    Votes: 9 4.9%
  • Total voters
    184
  • Poll closed .
PracticalMac

PracticalMac

macrumors 68030
Original poster
Jan 22, 2009
2,857
5,242
Houston, TX
Rogifan said:
I keep seeing these silly pie charts all the time but can someone tell me where is this data actually coming from? Especially when Amazon never reveals sales figures for the Kindle Fire? How do we know it has 21% market share? And 21% market share of what? How do we even know what the total market is? Again, who on the android side is revealing sales figures for their tablet? Even Asus with the Nexus 7 didn't give out hard figures. All they said is they were selling about a million a month. Microsoft has never released sales figures for the Surface RT.

And if Apple's market share is declining so much how come all of these statistics for web usage show iPad dominating? Are people not doing any web browsing on these other tablets?
Click to expand...

Estimates come from simply calling part manufactures and assembly plants, with a bit of estimation.

21% of all total tablets built.

As to web usage, very easy to tally, and simply shows iPads are by far the most used device.

I guess people buy 'droid tables to say "I have a tablet", but really have no idea how to use them. ;)
 
Rogifan

Rogifan

macrumors Penryn
Nov 14, 2011
24,124
31,156
PracticalMac said:
Estimates come from simply calling part manufactures and assembly plants, with a bit of estimation.

21% of all total tablets built.

As to web usage, very easy to tally, and simply shows iPads are by far the most used device.

I guess people buy 'droid tables to say "I have a tablet", but really have no idea how to use them. ;)
Click to expand...

A bit of estimation? Unless you're getting hard sales figures from companies I'd say it's a lot of estimation (or wishful thinking on the part of some, especially those pushing the whole "iPad killer" theme).
 
PracticalMac

PracticalMac

macrumors 68030
Original poster
Jan 22, 2009
2,857
5,242
Houston, TX
ixodes said:
One read of the poll & several posts here confirms the power, control & influence Apple has over a great number of their user base. Having already given reasons for the price, Apple devotees accepted the spin as their gospel.

Years of charging high prices have clouded customers view of reality. If it's made by Apple they are programmed to expect premium pricing. Only Apple could sell a tablet with a much lower ppi value than it's competition and still price it in the stratosphere.

Finally Apple leverages the fact that they have a captive market. If you want the product, you pay the tarrif. Apple is nothing if not clever.
Click to expand...

Not all the time, however.

Apple does sell competitively priced hardware, and the OS is dirt cheap!
 
A

AdonisSMU

macrumors 604
Oct 23, 2010
7,297
3,047
People always gripe about Apples pricing but then they want to exchange their iPads with Apples relaxed return policy and they want apple to pay its workers and its suppliers enough so these people can survive comfortably....that all costs money.
 
L

lianlua

macrumors 6502
Jun 13, 2008
370
3
Awakener said:
Well which is it? Apple doesn't participate in the razor-thin margin club or it's barely eeking out a profit on the Mini. Can't have both.
Click to expand...
First, who said Apple was "barely eeking out a profit"? They're making something shy of 20% profit on a 43% gross margin.

Second, you most certainly can have both. That's exactly what Google is doing. Their $150-160 Nexus 7 sells for $199, with a ~20% gross margin and virtually zero net profit. They can afford to do that only because Google's 20% net profit, which is basically the same as Apple's, comes from their advertising revenue.
 
PracticalMac

PracticalMac

macrumors 68030
Original poster
Jan 22, 2009
2,857
5,242
Houston, TX
Seems to be about equal mix of pro and negative opinion of price.

I am making an arbitrary adjustment for the pro-Apple bias in forums, but even then the feeling is the price is right.
 
B

bagelmaker

macrumors member
Oct 29, 2012
73
0
I paid $429 for the 32g and I think its more than worth that. I've wanted an Ipad for years, but never allowed myself to make the purchase because I knew with that form factor I would not carry it around with me. Since I would basically be using it at home, I couldn't justify that luxury purchase over using my home computer.

With the Mini I carry it with me all the time. I've had mine since the day they came out and I enjoy it more and more each day. (The fact that my enjoyment is increasing proves its value to me since I had a Nook Color that I grew tired of in 2 weeks . I eventually lost it somewhere and barely even cared.)

I was super excited, followed all the mini rumors etc. and this has still exceeded my hopes.
 
Ladybug

Ladybug

macrumors 68000
Apr 13, 2006
1,874
1,013
The price didn't bother me so much as the fact that for this price, it should have had more ram * at least 1gb *, and a faster processor. It doesn't come with retina and thats fine with me, but that already separates it from its big brother. I love my mini but do feel they could have at least upped the ram on it if nothing else and still kept the price the same.
 
Esoom

Esoom

macrumors 6502
Apr 30, 2010
415
51
Colorado
Google priced the nexus line disruptively, as well as Amazon's Fire pricing.

Am typing this on a N7, have had one since launch, it's the best Android tablet, and that's damn sad. There are several manufacturers capable of making an Android tablet that's as good, they choose not to do so. And the N7 is priced so low, there's no room for manufacturers to make any money anyway.

If Google and Amazon hadn't started a race to the bottom, the current mini pricing wouldn't be an issue.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom