The notion of Apple always selling out of products after a major launch is a 'misnomer' to say the least!!!
Anyone with an iota of common sense knows this is a marketing strategy full stop, one mean't to placate the FanBois and share holders - basically, Apple deliberately makes low volume of stocks available to make it seem that its new product launches have been a huge success.
Given the number one pad currently flying off shelves in the UK is the Nexus 7, and given the cheap price point of the Nexus 7 3G - perhaps you'd like Google and Asus to restrict access to these devices in the initial first week to maximise coverage on sites like this.
To put it bluntly, Apple have dropped the ball, its stock price is actually stagnating and it sell's over priced pretty toys catering to fashion requirements of the 1% that add little of real value to the real world - unlike its desk top/ computer business that added huge value to consumers and business alike - not to mention the number of manufacture ring/assembly jobs it used to provide in the first world and not the Third World - obviously Apple having no obligation whatsoever to its host nation hence the massive tax avoidance and off shoring of jobs to corrupt anti-democratic nations - not only Apple do this though I admit.
Now given I started off in life with a Apple LCIII way back in 1992 and have been in the Apple ecosystem ever since up until June this year with the purchase of a iPad 3 64G 4LTE, one was seriously not excited by Apple's new products this month - a anorexic iMac, a anorexic mac mini, a 13in Macbook Retina that's obviously way too expensive given the original was priced under US$1000 and a iPad Mini that's a iPad two in all but name and size at a stupid price point.
So, what do you think I'm investing in next for me and my daughter, well it ain't the iPad Mini or the new iPad, rather I'm getting a N7 32G for daughters Christmas box, a N7 32 3G for myself and a N4 Phone for the wife all for the price of a top end iPad - now who's the fools!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yawn, so many bitters in here... whoever says "for that price, I can get..." isn't an Apple customer.
If you don't like it, don't buy it. I CHOOSE not to drive a Lexus. Mainly because I don't need the status symbol\branding, and don't care about the extra "cool features" that it comes with, and my Toyota works just great.
I'm not sure why people feel the need to talk sh#$ about it... it's okay, if you can't afford it or think it's too expensive for what it is, don't buy it.
And if you're going to post your own unsolicited editorial, you should at least get your grammar and spelling checked.
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Could you back up that assertion with a link to show sales stats, a quick google seems to show the iPad is still selling in much larger quantities. One report I've read says that iPad is still selling around 60-70% of the market.
Yea, that genius fails to realize the logic in his statements... he says "xxxx is taking over marketshare" but fails to realize that actually says Apple is selling more this year than they did last year. Just because their percentage of the marketshare is dropping, doesn't mean they're less successful. If the market is 100 million people this year, Apple owns 90% of the market, and they sold 60 million, they have 60 million sold. If the market moves to 200 million next year, yet Apple slips to 70% of the market, they still have sold 80 million units in a year, which is actually a gain, but those who don't have a clue say "oh look, they went from 90 percent of the marketshare to 70% of of the share, that's awful. In reality it's not. But then we can't expect the average person to think for themselves, given their "logical comebacks" are "Obviously a Nexus is half the price, so Apple is overpriced" .... the mall would be 2 stores, Sears and JC Penney, if consumerism worked like that. Nobody would ever buy designer brands or anything except the cheapest, most generic item that got the job done. Hell, if Dyson can sell a vacuum for $499 that essentially does the same thing as a $99 Hoover, obviously consumerism supports padding a little extra cost into an Apple product.
But hey, I'd LOVE to see a hands-on of any user who has posted above as a naysayer about the price. In fact, I challenge anyone who thinks the iPad Mini price point is too high and says they're buying a Nexus to actually buy their Nexus, make a 2 minute hands-on walk through, and tell us what they think AFTER buying it. Let me guess, nobody will take me up on this, because you're all talking absolute horse sh#%
