I agree with that, it is a pain waiting for them to announce it but an even bigger pain waiting until we can actually buy it!
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I agree with that, it is a pain waiting for them to announce it but an even bigger pain waiting until we can actually buy it!
I was about to bring up how I hope this doesn't become like the iPhone rebate. Going from $599 to $399 ($200 or 1/3 off) after just what, a month? Kinda too much, too soon IMO.
They had to announce it in advance otherwise it would have been leaked when it was sent for FCC approval.
Stupid statement to make......basically "If we don't sell what we expect i will lower the price". Hows that gonna help.
Reminded me of when I had Vonage for $30 a month, when I went to cancel they offered $15 a month to stay, really pissed me off. Why wasn't it $15 in the first place.
Reminded me of when I had Vonage for $30 a month, when I went to cancel they offered $15 a month to stay, really pissed me off. Why wasn't it $15 in the first place.
Why should Apple be any different than all the slate manufacturers who exhibited a month earlier and still haven't even announced ship dates other then "later in 2010"? Even the HP Ballmer held up in front of his jelly belly hasn't even had a price announcement, much less a ship date.
I've already encountered a couple of uses for around the house type ipadding I might likely do, but five hundred bucks with 16 gb storage? I can't believe products with the ability to store music and photos and video are being produced with as little as 16 gb storage.
...because for the time from when you started paying that much and the time when you stopped paying that much they were making $15 more/month from you? It's what every business tries to do - charge as much as they can to make as much as they can from you, but also avoid losing you to their competitors (and keep making some money from you if possible).
Problem is, it's hard to ship a platform with nothing to run on it in particular.
Yeah, it runs iPhone apps, but running only those would be kinda fugly. They've whipped up some Apple apps for it, but most of those were met with a yawn. They could clue in some other big names via NDAs, but that has ugly logistics, risks leaks, and debuts with still too few native apps.
Alternative is what they did: introduce it 2-3 months early, give everyone the specs & SDK, and have the market chomping at the bit with LOTS of ported & native apps ready to go once it hits.
Bonus: with the premature intro, Apple defuses lots of the "it sucks - and will no matter what 'it' is" negative hype before the actual delivery, and has a chance to evaluate the market & adjust accordingly to delight customers when they actually get it. Imagine what happens if, now that we know what it is, Jobs drops the price by $100 and includes the front-facing camera (or some other combination of improvements) at actual introduction: we're all happy it's better than promised, and go crazy buying 'em.
It's rare for a new platform to show up completely unannounced. Kinda stalls the interest when people can't actually _do_ anything with a new product beyond what they already do with other products. Imagine (all M$ bashing aside) Microsoft introducing Windows 8 out of the blue, no leaks, no pre-announcements, and no native apps to benefit from the upgrade out of the gate.
That incredibly "cheap" price is for a mere 16GB version. It's the famous "starting at only" price. Maybe they can come out with a no-memory version for 100u$$ less!
For this kind of device a minimum acceptable is 32GB. To do the advertised; consuming media (movies,songs and books), 16GB is a joke.
For this kind of device a minimum acceptable is 32GB. To do the advertised; consuming media (movies,songs and books), 16GB is a joke.
Non-story. Any company would be open to price cuts of any product to increase sales.
Plus, it's too early to call price cuts considering the product is not even out yet, AND the price is extremely competitive already, as mentioned here:
Think Apple iPad is Expensive? There's a Chart for That
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/858707/
Plus, it's too early to call price cuts considering the product is not even out yet, AND the price is extremely competitive already, as mentioned here:
Think Apple iPad is Expensive? There's a Chart for That
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/858707/
Oh come on dude, this argument comes up every time Apple has a new product announcement, yet the product still sells immensely.
If the price for the 3G upgrade was $200, then you'd say, "If Apple just lowered the 3G upgrade to $150, more people would justify purchasing....."
Let's just hope Apple doesn't start thinking the iPhone/iPad OS is a full OS & make the next version of Mac OS X just an even bigger version of the iPhone oS.
This whole discussion is moot since the iPad is going to be wildly successful. We will be talking about the ridiculous prices that are being charged by some because of it's scarcity.
This is random, totally. I went to Apple store to search "refurb iphone" and came across this: http://store.apple.com/us/search?find=iphone+refurb&mco=MTA4MzM3MTA
Scroll down, you'll notice that iPhone 3GS are priced higher than regular retail price and very close to iPad pricing. Pretty insane, is it?
Scroll down, you'll notice that iPhone 3GS are priced higher than regular retail price and very close to iPad pricing. Pretty insane, is it?
That incredibly "cheap" price is for a mere 16GB version. It's the famous "starting at only" price. Maybe they can come out with a no-memory version for 100u$$ less!
For this kind of device a minimum acceptable is 32GB. To do the advertised; consuming media (movies,songs and books), 16GB is a joke.
Even the most expensive 64GB+3G model is still less than the $999 predictions (as Jobs was keen to point out during his keynote).
And you can decide "I'm going to watch [XYZ] on my lap, and show [ABC] photos to my family later", and sync the appropriate content from iTunes. Then next time you want to do something, you sync for that. Same sorta model as the iPod Shuffle uses. Decide what you want, load it up, consume, repeat. I agree though that as a decide that has the potential to replace the traditional computer entirely for some markets, the amount of storage is a little disappointing. You can get 64GB in the iPod touch, surely you could fit more in a device the size of the iPad! (Plus larger flash chips have been released since the last iPod touch revision.)
I am really sitting on the fence, but a price cut would be VERY tempting, even though I was happily surprised buy the price to begin with. It is the markups and premiums on the higher models that is annoying!
If this happened and a surprise iSight in the 1st Gen, wow! I am not getting my hopes up though as that is VERY unlikely to happen! Honestly one freaking camera that costs Apple literally like $2-$5 and they would have doubled their buyers for the 1st Gen or more! Oh well.
If this happened and a surprise iSight in the 1st Gen, wow!
I am not getting my hopes up though as that is VERY unlikely to happen! Honestly one freaking camera that costs Apple literally like $2-$5 and they would have doubled their buyers for the 1st Gen or more! Oh well. 
The biggest problem with the iPad is not the pricing, it's the lack of perceived value for consumers.
I'm the local alpha geek and even I am scratching my head about the iPad.
What are the "killer apps"? I would have expected Apple to launch at least one with the device but it does not appear it's going to happen.
They haven't even addressed how they will handle multiple users. A phone is a personal device so it's understandable that there are no user profiles. The iPad is going to be used in a household by ostensibly multiple members of the same family.
I'm pretty sure each user in the family would like their own email and apps to populate the front page of the device but Apple can't even deliver this to us.
It's a pretty big let down.
I'm the local alpha geek and even I am scratching my head about the iPad.
What are the "killer apps"? I would have expected Apple to launch at least one with the device but it does not appear it's going to happen.
They haven't even addressed how they will handle multiple users. A phone is a personal device so it's understandable that there are no user profiles. The iPad is going to be used in a household by ostensibly multiple members of the same family.
I'm pretty sure each user in the family would like their own email and apps to populate the front page of the device but Apple can't even deliver this to us.
It's a pretty big let down.
The day of the keynote, I would have purchased an iPad (or even pre-ordered), had they been available. Now, having time to think about it... I'm not quite as excited, but I still may buy it. Has anyone else lost interest since the keynote? I wonder if sales would have differed greatly with a same-day launch.
Geesh - Apple didn't even release the iPad yet, and WSJ is talking about a price reduction if it doesn't meet sales expectations? How many people are going to think that a price drop can occur after a few months like the original iPhone, choose to wait to buy one, and then - guess what - the price drops because of lack of sales.
Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy.