Is it just me or does the idea of having a contract for an e-book reader/media player/game machine seem really, really stupid???
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Apple iPad Pricing and Availability: $600-$1000, March 1st?
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I agree I live in Hamburg, Germany and Media Markt would not know about anything Apple they hardly have Apple products to begin with. Saturn, is the biggest Electronics store here and they would know before Media Markt. This is FAKE. Also Tmobile is the biggest phone provider here and are 10 times better than the US Tmobile. Service here is great. But that being said I dont see too many people signing another contract for the iSlate.
Define failure, please. Are there examples of laptops at that price point that sells like hotcakes? At that price, I think it sells well enough to bring in good profits for Apple. Otherwise, it would have discontinued it by now. I don't own one, as the weight of laptop is not that big a deal for me, but I know people who do, even though I don't know that many people who own an Apple computer to begin with. (I was going to say "very few people" but the list has been growing recently, as quite a few of my friends who used to make fun of "overpriced" Macs have decided to buy one for one reason or another.)
But the thinking in that is that the "iPad" will be a larger version of the iPod Touch. What if you're looking at it all wrong? (what if) It would be a completely new device, more like Amazon's Kindle with unique features that does different things from what the iPod Touch will do.
It's like saying buying a point and shoot camera for $500 when you can get a dSLR camera for the same price. Both are cameras, but used for two different purposes...
There are always cheaper Windows tablets out there to buy! LOL Have at 'em boys!
This is the secret to Apples success.. they aren't wizards that can make brilliant products for the same price as everyone else. They simply throw money at the problem... BUT they at least make the extra money spent worthwhile. If Windows developers tried the same it would probably just be more expensive garbage.
This is the secret to Apples success.. they aren't wizards that can make brilliant products for the same price as everyone else. They simply throw money at the problem... BUT they at least make the extra money spent worthwhile. If Windows developers tried the same it would probably just be more expensive garbage.
Well, I live in germany, too.
You -are- aware that both MediaMarkt and Saturn belong to the Metro group, right? So one knowing something would make the other knowing it, too. And they both have roughly the same selection of Apple products.
Someone suggested T-Mobile might have known something, and I could imagine that to be the leak. T-Mobile talking to MediaMarkt to be a seller for them, like T-Mobile sold the iPhone in MediaMarkt as well as their own shops.
Just to prepare them for the rush once it's out.. 'You know, we'll be getting this iPad from Apple, it'll sell for 999 without contract, 699 with this one. We'd like to offer it in your store, too, like we did with the iPhone...' and already it is leaked.
The Mac Mini is treated like a redhead stepchild and while it's still made today, it's by no means a success. The Air is what it is-- a small stone in the Apple retraining wall and things like the Mac Mini and the Air get cobbled into gaps and not given much thought.
The iPhone/iPod/tablet craze just shows you how short-sighted Apple has gotten in the past few years.
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Why compare it to iPhone? iPhone is a phone and the extra. Bigger doesn't always have to be more expensive.
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Why compare it to iPhone? iPhone is a phone and the extra. Bigger doesn't always have to be more expensive.
Why would I pay that when I can get a MacBook with a real keyboard for not much more and tether my phone. With lots feeling the burn from our current contract being extremely heavy around our ankles, why would they price their "next big thing" right out of the competive range? $1000, what so I can fondle the screen and run similar apps as my phone? I think it will be lower, no doubt. And if not, good luck getting people to read the paper on an overpriced toy.
That's true. A super-sized Kindle is might pricey when you look at its dedicated function compared to what a maxed-out iPod Touch can do. And for the same chunk of change, you can get a very nice digital camera. You're right... it's about what you want it to do.
We don't know if it will be like a super-sized iPod Touch or half of a MacBook (full OSX, lots of memory capacity).
Because we don't know if it's going to be an over-sized iPod Touch or half a MacBook in terms of OS. That can make all the difference in the world between sale, no sale.
But I challenge you (in a friendly manner) to give me an example where Apple made something bigger but wasn't more expensive.
It's being compared to the iPhone because this device seems to be an iPhone - the phone + e-book reader only a little larger in size.
Wednesday....Wednesday....Wednesday....
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No more contracts please! Why not let iPhone owners use their iPhones to tether as an added bonus in a iPhone/iPad 2 hit combo?
No more contracts please! Why not let iPhone owners use their iPhones to tether as an added bonus in a iPhone/iPad 2 hit combo?
Hopefully, if they use logic, they'll open the iPhone to other carriers as one separate issue, but also use it as a springboard (hey, maybe call it the iSpringboard) to tether your iPhone to your iPad w/ whatever carrier you want. So you don't have a contract w/ AT&T for the iPhone and a different contract w/ Verizon for the iPad. Like how AT&T and Verizon have bundles (TV, Internet, wireless). Simplicity and value. That's IF AT&T can open up their tightly-closed fists to allow their customers to save a little. HA! Good luck w/ THAT one!
Excuse me while I go yank $350 out of my piggy bank. Actually, make that $375, because I want $25 to spare to buy a book and some apps for my new iSlate after this announcement Wed.
-I'm considering buying the latest Harry Potter [as the Augmented Reality iSlate version].
-I'm considering buying the latest Harry Potter [as the Augmented Reality iSlate version].
Just cos AT&T is screwing you doesn't mean everyone one is. Apple doesn't mind tethering, just AT&T. Tethering works fine just about everywhere else.
And speaking of stuff like that, I can get 3G SIM with 512kbit/s data rate for 10 EUR a month in Finland... And something like that would fit perfectly into a device like the tablet.
If you think it will be $350, even subsidized, then I better expect to see the price and the "cache" of a 64GB iPod Touch to be slashed. Because if $350 can get you a 10" tablet, a dinky 3.5" Touch would be the equivalent of going to an electronic store and buying a Coby brand MP3 player.
Or to put it in terms some MacRumors people would understand: I buy a MacBook Pro with X.35 processor in December of '09 and in January of '10, Apple speedbumps it to X.55 and charges the same the price.
I think the same. Contracts and Big Telecoms are becoming the cancer of these types of devices that rely on constant data stream to actually have a functionality. I agree with the concept of using the cloud but I don't like to be tied to an specific carrier, I want options and freedom of choice, not falsely subsidized products that will be rendered useless way before their contractual ties are over.
i.e. I don't want another iPhone (1st gen), I want a Nexus One done well, contractually speaking.
