Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
Well my world just got mixed up. I've pretty much sealed a deal to sell my Macbook and I'm now dipping into being an iPhone developer for an old job of mine. 🙄
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Book Publishers Offer Details on Apple's Tablet Plans?
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Apple already sells the iPhone at a "loss" compared to manufacturing cost, because at&t and other carriers subsidize the cost and give them a slice of those juicy data plans. Also, App Store developers give Apple 30% of their revenue.
I could see the Tablet taking the same path. iTunes adds a "Books & Magazines" section, thus giving publishers access to 100 million credit card-bearing customers. In exchange, publishers give Apple a 30% slice of all content sold to customers and might also subsidize the manufacturing cost of the hardware itself.
I love reading, but I'll admit that I'm too lazy to go through the hassle of subscribing/unsubscribing to magazines, recycling/storing them, going to the bookstore, etc. A more convenient format and purchasing method would be right up my alley.
arkitect
macrumors G3
Xian Zhu Xuande
macrumors 6502a
This isn't so difficult to figure out. If Apple is truly telling potential content providers that the price is "nowhere near the rumored $1,000 price point," then we ask ourselves a simple question: "Would Apple tell potential content providers something they wanted to hear?" Yes, they would. More units sold (lower price) is good news. Less units sold (higher price) is bad news. So if this rumor is true—if Apple is truly saying this—then their tablet product will be 'nowhere near $1,000' on the lower-price scale.
P.S. Comments like "It better not be more than $299! That would be a rip-off!"
Save it until the product is announced. And get a job.
P.S. Comments like "It better not be more than $299! That would be a rip-off!"
Save it until the product is announced. And get a job.
Peace
Cancelled
WHAT????
One of the last bastions of that world is succumbing to the RDF?? 😱
The force is strong in this rumor.
Sounds like a legitimate self-interested and business-oriented change of mind to me...no problem. But I still hope it's something more than just a big iPhone. 🙄
limesmoothie
macrumors 6502a
You do know this site is called mac rumors, yes? 😉
I agree, the level of hype is totally out of hand even here in the UK. The gap between expectation and reality may be way too much for the Blessed Steve of Cupertino to match, whatever he pulls out of that brown envelope. Especially if its priced like a MacBook Air.
mrgreen4242
macrumors 601
Hmmm.. a 7" OLED device with 3GS "guts" (in terms of CPU, GPU, and RAM), 32gb SSD, a new and improved version OS X mobile for $399 and I'll almost certainly bite... let me tether a keyboard, give me iWork, and it's a promise! I'd love to basically have a netbook version of my iPod touch. I would replace my Dell mini with that, and my first gen touch with a shuffle. 🙂
Eidorian is a whiner but still a Mac user...right? So he has ALREADY succumbed to the RDF. 😎
nickXedge
macrumors 6502
Hahaha, yeah. It's going to be Macbook Air priced... closer to $2,000. Ah I'm just kidding. It would be really nice it if was priced considerably lower than $1,000 though. Certainly sell many more units under that condition.
limesmoothie
macrumors 6502a
I was doing some maths yesterday, figuring out the max it would have to cost before I'd think 'that's a bit steep'. I came out with the cost of the basic MacBook as a baseline.....🙁
I'm hope for £600 or less. Any more and I'd have to consider not buying the new iPhone in the summer 😱
Chupa Chupa
macrumors G5
Apple doesn't sell the phone at a loss, ATT does. That's what the subsidy is -- ATT paying Apple the difference between MSRP and what the consumer pays.
Originally, consumers paid full boat for the phone (no ATT subsidy) and Apple got a slice of each iPhone subscription. That changed when Apple changed to the traditional subsidy business model.
Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
I've always had a Mac guys. 🙄
I just ordered parts for a hackintosh for $80 off of NewEgg. I have plenty of free time and I'm about to head to the library to mooch off insane bandwidth to get iPhone SDK + XCode. I'll order some iPhone dev books too. Anything I can do to make some more money and use my skills is never a bad thing.
Oh and I'll sell off my MacBook to pay off for a new one. 😀
RichardI
macrumors 6502a
This is getting interesting...
A Kindle DX is somewhere in the $450 to $500 range and I can't imagine Apple competing with that price, so I'm guessing Apple will offer "more" than a Kindle. This shoots my wants out of the water. I wanted some actual competition in the hopes of getting a good e-reader for about $300 Can. I really don't care about portable internet, or getting my sports news sent over the web to my cell phone...
Damn!
A Kindle DX is somewhere in the $450 to $500 range and I can't imagine Apple competing with that price, so I'm guessing Apple will offer "more" than a Kindle. This shoots my wants out of the water. I wanted some actual competition in the hopes of getting a good e-reader for about $300 Can. I really don't care about portable internet, or getting my sports news sent over the web to my cell phone...
Damn!
BABG
macrumors newbie
If it's anything like that, it will be a huge flop practically. But, no doubt some of the Mac fanboys that populate this board, will begin splooging in the undies for a chance to wait in line for one.
iZac
macrumors 68040
sishaw
macrumors 65816
In fact, they did that before with Snow Leopard...everyone expected a $129 tag before they announced it for $29.