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Apple Considering Lower-Priced iPad Mini at $199-$249?
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I think I have only used my rear camera twice, I would be fine not having one as long as other specs don't also suffer. 8GB is quite low, especially here and now.
I wouldn't be surprise if it did and then have the iPod nano, shuffle and classic categories reworked into the rumored "iWatch" device category alongside the iPod Touch. They could name it the iPod Watch or iPod SmartWatch at that point. Sell it starting at $99? At that price, if you didn't own an Apple device before, chances are you'll be interested in the iPod Watch now. Knowing how they drive an ecosystem among their products, they'd love the potential for a halo effect here where the iPod watch becomes a sort of controller for the Apple TV, paring device with your iPhone/iPad, so on.
Cheapskate, buying a few.
"Spare no expense to save money on this one..."
For me, cheaper is always preferable (I admit I'm a cheapskate). If the iPad mini sells for $199, I'll be in for a few.
"Spare no expense to save money on this one..."
I say this is definitely a possibility. A price drop on the current iPad mini when a new model (probably with retina) gets released. Makes sense!
how are ipod touch sales doing because i think i wouldnt have bought a ipod touch with a mini sitting there at 199
it's a tablet, not a camera.
It's probably the thing that annoys me most about tablets - that useless camera on the back. I already have a phone and standalone camera for that stuff, no need for one on my tablet.
An 8GB iPad without a SD card slot would be considered a useless piece of crap.
If 16GB is barely usable, now imagine 8GB!
I don't believe this rumor is true. It better not!
If 16GB is barely usable, now imagine 8GB!
I don't believe this rumor is true. It better not!
Assembled in China. So what's wrong with this! Who cares jobs have gone in the Western World and all products have subsides applied by the Chinese government so they cut prices below Western world produced products.
I do
The iPad mini should have never been produced just like Steve Jobs said. Their are cheap products made by other suppliers for those who like cheap products. Apple should never bring cheap products to the market.
I'm predicting more of $249 for the "entry" level (current gen) model and the newer Retina with a 32nm (or is the new one they're testing 24nm?) A5X at $329.
I wonder if the A7 will be able to power the Retina sans the discrete graphics chip...
I wonder if the A7 will be able to power the Retina sans the discrete graphics chip...
Assembled in China. So what's wrong with this! Who cares jobs have gone in the Western World and all products have subsides applied by the Chinese government so they cut prices below Western world produced products.
I do
The iPad mini should have never been produced just like Steve Jobs said. Their are cheap products made by other suppliers for those who like cheap products. Apple should never bring cheap products to the market.
What's cheap about the iPad mini?
Oh and what say you about the iPod shuffle?
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Wow, you guys are funny!
Yeah sure, average people choose Android-based smartphones not because they are cheaper, but because they're excited by the feature set and they really like it, lol. Are either of you familiar with the term specious reasoning?
Not me, it the smaller size I am looking at for travelling with. I already own an iPad 2 and love it, but we are about to do a world trip for 2 months and the smaller iPad mini will take up less room. So we are buying the 32G 3G model, cost is NOT the only thing in play.
I agree, which is why I only predicted a $40 drop (if you had checked the math
). That's the maximum I think Apple would accept for the current iPad mini as manufacturing costs drop with experience and volume.
They were up 138% in China which is a price-sensitive market. I fully agree with you.
I also think that everything Kuo says sounds completely unlike Apple. Why produce a crippled device to shave of $70 from the price tag? Only thing that would make sense is poly-carbonate shell and that would not save much money.
Going with no camera affects developers since they can't rely on the presence of a camera. Also, since iPad is all about apps, you cannot ship an 8GB model without crippling it.
Yeah that was before, the way it used to be.
But I'm afraid you haven't been watching closely enough for the last 2 years. Nearly all prices went severely up on almost all products, while new features, if any, were added as expensive options (like Fusion Drives and Retina). At the same time, we got less ports and slower drives, i.e. less features.
Not exactly a customer-friendly price policy.
A plastic iPad mini after they already introduced an aluminum one? Um, no, not happening.
Considering they have a product called Apple TV, not iTV, and iPod Touch, not iTouch, anything is possible.
I think they will keep this iPad mini when the new one comes out and make it cheaper, with the new retina model taking over the current price point, kinda like what they do with the iPhones. Otherwise introducing a "iPad Micro" would just be plain stupid...