I'm shocked at this price. Hopefully the features blow away the competition, because the price is so high at that screen size. I had no interest in this, and now I'm happy I don't. My iPad 2 is doing just fine. Hopefully those prices are wrong...
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'iPad Mini' Pricing to Begin at Approximately $329
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But the question in my mind is if the 16GB Nexus 7 is $199 and the 16Gb iPad mini is $329, will people pay the extra $130 to get the iPad. I probably will not as much as I love my current iPad 1 and my iPhone 5.
Apple will blow away the competition! Nexus only has a 1.2 megapixial camera - no retina display. I don't get the people on here bad mouthing apple products. Apple always blows away the competition, thats why we love their products!
You may not like his answer but there is truth to it.
The iPad mini at $329 is clearly competing with the iPod touch and not the cheaper android based tablets.
You clearly missed the point. It doesn't matter if it's $330 or $690, I ain't paying one red cent above $299. Period. Bottom line. End of discussion.
If you want to be a sucker and overpay for a gimped 7 inch tablet, go right ahead.
For heavens sake, iFixit numbers are for the parts only. iFixit numbers are not what it costs to sell a device to a customer, they are just the cost of a bag of parts in China.
Do you think you can turn these parts into devices at no cost, package them and send them to a store half way round the world at no cost, put them on the shelves and sell them with paying rent for the store, wages to the employees, taxes, a percentage to the bank for handling the money, and no customer will ever call your help line, nobody will ever return a device, no device will ever break and need to be repaired or replaced?
Now if you add all that cost, you arrive at gross margin. Which is not profit, because gross margin doesn't take into account development, marketing, advertising, the cost to run a business and all that.
So, I'm looking at around $350 for a base model with taxes. I guess I won't be selling my iPad 3 then.
I figured it'd be in the $300 price range.I was hoping $299 min though.
I won't be selling mine either. But then, I never was planning to. I'll wait for the next generation, and see what it has to offer.
How can it have premium features when the rumour is a 1024x768 resolution screen? Thats not premium, thats vintage.
Over $300 and we're getting into regular iPad price territory. Why bother to make a Mini if it's not even that much cheaper than the full iPad? If it's retina and has some amazing processing power and new features not on the current iPads, then I can see it, but otherwise it's way overpriced and will lose sales to Kindles and Androids that have higher-resolution screens and cost half as much.
Nexus 7 for $199/250 at 16GB and 32GB respectively, and provided the iPad mini isn't retina, and has the rumored 1024x768 screen resolution, then the N7 also has better resolution. Apple would be betting a lot on their brand name to sell this one.
I am getting conflicting information on the updated Nexus 7. The 8 GB is going to stick around at $199 with the 32 GB superseding the 16 GB model. Or the 16 GB is bumped down to $199 to be replaced by the 32 GB at the $249 price point.
Then there is the new Nexus phone and Nexus 10 tablet for October 29th.
That's quite the logic:
For $299 you would spend $598 for two instead of just $329 for one?
Apple is just asking for $30 more over what everyone was hoping for. They are not asking for $100 more.
Apple is also betting the average consumer is going to buy that additional idevice within 3 to 6 months.
Personally I hope none of the iPad mini rumours turn out to be true. Apple used to be a company that simply WOW'd you with new inventions and this usual pattern of product codes & pictures being leaked months before release are slowly bringing their reputation down.
I for one will be expecting the unexpected from Apple, I'm sure they can still pull something out of their sleeves. I'm sure I could be wrong, too.
I for one will be expecting the unexpected from Apple, I'm sure they can still pull something out of their sleeves. I'm sure I could be wrong, too.
What if you want an iPad that is smaller than the 3rd gen one? If that's the case $400 is no bargain for something you don't really want.
Also, you can wait six months and get the iPad mini used for a similar discount, so why not compare Apples to Apples?
If the iPad 2 is no longer being sold new (or even if it is), the entry level price for an iPad is now $70 less.
I'm afraid you seriously underestimate the power of the fruit logo, they could stick it on a lump of poo and sell it at $300 and MILLIONS would buy it! Same with a high priced low spec iPad Mini, they could charge $350 or $400 and millions will buy it even at 8GB and then gloat about their purchase.
It came from analysts etc in a story from 9to5mac:
http://9to5mac.com/2012/10/20/apples-smaller-ipad-to-likely-start-at-a-minimum-of-329-in-the-u-s/
Bang on, why are people gloating the ipad is here to stay but Android is not? What???? So in your eye's the app store will go on and on for ever and ever but Android and it's stores and apps will simply fade away and vanish? Not will millions and millions of devices sold and Apple pricing it's devices at premium prices it won't!
IMO stating Android isn't in it for the long haul is just as much of a wish full thinking fantasy dreamland statement as stating the iPad Mini was going to be $200!
Let's look at assembly costs and r&d and marketing and etc...
Cost for a asian to assemble the ipad: $10 http://www.voxxi.com/assembling-an-apples-iphone-in-foxconn-plant-8/
Cost of R&D per iDevice: (2.2% of sales) or $7.26 = 0.022*$330 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/apples-r-and-d-spending-hits-bottom-as-percentage-of-revenue/60872
Cost of Marketing in 2010: $691 million, much lower than the $1.78 Billion spend on R&D
http://appleinsider.com/articles/10...n_but_still_outpaced_by_new_sales_growth.html
Cost of retail stores, staff, etc: All companies pay this.