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'iPad Mini' Pricing to Begin at Approximately $329
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"I would expect an upward bias in Apple pricing this year of $50 on pads and $100-200 on computers."
Latest I read was the 16GB will replace the 8GB pricing and the 32GB will replace the 16GB pricing.
But a Tegra 3 tablet with Android Jelly Bean and 32GB of storage is a bargain at $249.
Your memory is not so great. Every Apple release has been met with bitching about how it's not as good as it could have been. Every single one. Original iPhone: No apps. No Cut and Paste. Not a "real" smartphone. Original iPad: No camera. "Just a big iPhone without the phone." Stupid name like a feminine hygiene product.
Which is the last Apple product that "simply WOW'd you"? I'll go find some examples of folks saying that Apple had lost its mojo.
And we don't even know the final spec/price... I take any rumors with a grain of salt until Apple announces them officially!
There was article comparing the screen sizes. Most people call the iPad mini a 7" tablet, but it's 7.85", which is closer to 8" and 40% bigger than the 7" screens. That's why everything is $X.99.
inventions!!! Really! What are u smoking? 90% of this technology was handed down from government research. Apple was just in the right place at the right time and people with the right talent to put it all together. Apple made it look too easy and that's we're the so called competition is having their problems.
Very good question. I'm not a product manager, they are the ones that decide these things, however I can tell you what I want, and the number one thing I require in a device (which is different from all other devices out there currently) is a high resolution screen. I read a lot of PDFs, and I'd love for a device this size to be able to display PDFs (which I normally print out). When I print, I print 2 per page and if I could instead view this same printout in a tablet that is roughly the same size as my Kindle (which displays PDFs horribly). Imagine a product like that, and now imagine which products would compete against it.
Others imagine a product that is incapable of competing against a cheaper product with superior specs - that would be madness. I imagine a world where Apple lives up to its reputation and produces a product that is different in ways that aren't price related to products already on the market.
Does that answer your question?
"How can rumours be fact?" is the better question you should be asking. I never, never said that 1024x768 is premium, in fact, I've said (consistently) that the resolution of the iPad 2 would most definitely *not* be premium, and would not warrant a premium price. There is a rumour that the resolution is iPad 2's resolution - if that is true and there isn't another reason to pay a premium price, then Apple has lost its mind regarding brand management, and that is a situation I don't believe for a moment has actually happened. Can't wait till Tuesday!
The guys that are posting $30= no buy or a nexus 7 u guys are just passive aggressive trolls. There I said it!
Someone probably already posted this but:
The this pricing makes the new iPod Touch seem like an even worse deal than it already does at $299. Who is buying those things at $299? I mean they are SUPER nice but I'm not buying my kid a $300 iPod.
The this pricing makes the new iPod Touch seem like an even worse deal than it already does at $299. Who is buying those things at $299? I mean they are SUPER nice but I'm not buying my kid a $300 iPod.
For all those who say what's $30 - let me send you my address and you can all send me that 30 that you don't care about.
I'd love to buy a tablet and intend to do a full size one when I need to replace my laptop. However, these prices are way past what I want and probably can afford for a product that I'm not sure how / if I will use. I want basically and e-reader that I can do Internet and some of the very few apps that I run. It would be very hard to justify for my needs and our budget a $350 device + tax + at least some sort of protective cover.
I'd love to stay in the Apple world but I don't care what features it will have (Retina, etc.) I just can't spend and won't spend $350 plus for a device that I can satisfy my requirements for 200.
And once I go to the Android world will I just stay there for my next phone.
I think 350 and up is a bad mistake for Apple. I know they are smarter and richer than I am but for most people that much additional cost for features that most people won't know or care about is much too much. You have to compete at all ends of the market - not maybe match price but keep it in range.
I'd love to buy a tablet and intend to do a full size one when I need to replace my laptop. However, these prices are way past what I want and probably can afford for a product that I'm not sure how / if I will use. I want basically and e-reader that I can do Internet and some of the very few apps that I run. It would be very hard to justify for my needs and our budget a $350 device + tax + at least some sort of protective cover.
I'd love to stay in the Apple world but I don't care what features it will have (Retina, etc.) I just can't spend and won't spend $350 plus for a device that I can satisfy my requirements for 200.
And once I go to the Android world will I just stay there for my next phone.
I think 350 and up is a bad mistake for Apple. I know they are smarter and richer than I am but for most people that much additional cost for features that most people won't know or care about is much too much. You have to compete at all ends of the market - not maybe match price but keep it in range.
My real guess? They will drop the iPad 2 entirely. They will update the iPad 3 to an A6 SOC with quad core graphics or something special, Lightning connector, possibly new IGZO screen and thinner design with LTE but I think that'll be next year.
The iPad Mini will start from $399, it will have a dual core A6 and tri core or quad core GPU. It will start from 16GB to 32 to 64. Both WiFi and 4G LTE versions offered. It will offer something special with the screen, this GF2 tech and Igzo screen?
All Apple will do is offer two tablets with similar power but at different sizes, 9.7" and 7.85".
They will position it between the pricing of the $250 tablets and the iPad 3 as the MS Surface has targeted the iPad 3 price too.
I would love to be able to go out to dinner for $30.
I'm fine with the price. But, I just hope they don't go cheap and skimp on the features, which Apple has been known to do on first generation products. If they do, like they did with the iPad 1, then the price is too much.
Yeah, I just noticed that. Anyway, it does make some sense like that, don't you think?
BTW, I do this all the time. A result of not writing enough. It happens.
then it definitely will start at $299, still you have about 33% margin which is typical for iPad.
but I would pay more $30 if the resolution is great than the 1280x800
After Steve passing away, these slow and steady leaks works for Apple. IMHO.
so they do not hype too much and fail. last quarter sales was not good (hear it from next week conference call)
But this quarter (holiday) quarter will be block buster; so in a way these leaks works for Tim Cook