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'iPad Mini' Pricing to Begin at Approximately $329
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32GB will be out for christmas, it's in our Argos gift guide at £199
no shipping required, pick up from store
Sure hope $329 isn't an accurate starting price. Sold my iPad 3 to wait for the iPad Mini expecting a $249 starting price. If $329 is correct, may just have to pick up a Nexus 7 instead.
You honestly expected an iPad to sell for the same price as a Nexus 7? If so that was a pretty unrealistic expectation.
nexus 7 32gb to be introduced October 29th and will take the 16gb price point. They will likely do away with the 8gb and the 16gb will be lowered to 8gb price.
so yeah 32gb nexus $249 or £199 in uk
p.s why would you want it shipped when you can walk into a local store and buy one? its easier to take back if anything goes wrong.
The only god like statements come from ifans about their toys. I have been a long time osx and ios user and have recently taken the plunge to an Android phone, I definitely cannot say that I'm sorely disappointed. My ipad is still great but i wish it could be more like my new phone for sure.
Especially when the ipod touch is already 299
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It is widely expected to start shipping by the end of this month.
This product will be revolutionary and magical. People will be lining up for it and it will be backordered for weeks even with the high price. I'd say they are smart making all the $$$ they can on it. Maybe later they can have some sort of discount for schools, but to start with they need to maximize profit.
+1..So was the ipad 3.. and look how long the lines were there.
This don' t tickle my fancy anymore.... Huge lines .... Seems they get longer every year.....
Camping out outside is even more weider..... I hope you all catch a cold
in a good way of couse
Sure hope $329 isn't an accurate starting price. Sold my iPad 3 to wait for the iPad Mini expecting a $249 starting price. If $329 is correct, may just have to pick up a Nexus 7 instead.
I see no valid reason to "downgrade" from an iPad 3 to an iPad Mini; unless, you want a smaller screen real estate than fine, but you probably made a bad move for a device that is purely speculation at this point. Not to mention the rumored specs are less impressive than the iPad 3.
I find it interesting that some people think this new iPad Mini is suppose to replace the iPad 3, in one way or another. Come Tuesday, I don't expect to see LTE or retina, basically, a revised iPad 2.
It is a myth.
Boots was selling iTunes gift cards last month with 20% rebate - £25 cards for £20. So when I bought a £25 gift card for £20, Apple most definitely doesn't get £25, they don't even get £20 - Boots isn't going to sell these cards at a loss. However, if I buy apps with a price tag of £25, the developers gets £17.50. So Apple doesn't keep £7.50, they keep less than £2.50. And for that they have to run the store, handle payments, and so on and so on.
No, developers don't get 70% of the revenue. They get 70% of the advertised price. Depending on how the app was sold, Apple gets less than 100% of the advertised price, but still pays out 70%. Apple covers all the cost of the sale, rebates for gift cards, credit card charges, cost of returns, cost of handling fraud, all the infrastructure, downloads and so on. Apple also makes huge profit on all the free apps they are distributing. 30% of nothing, minus their cost.
Why do people get so upset with this? I go buying a camera, and I decide "not more than £100". Once I made that decision, I don't buy one for £109 or £119. If someone decided "I'm not going to pay more than $300 for an iPad mini", that's their decision and good for them if they stick to it.
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I own an iPad 2 and an iPhone 4s (plus my wife and I have macbook pros).
I told my 10 year old daughter who loves to read, and loves to read on the ipad, that if the mini was $250 we would get one. More than that we just don't "need" one. I have a lot invested in apps, etc, but at $300+ I could buy a nexus and still spend $50+ on apps for it.
Costco this weekend had the 7 inch galaxy for about $180 after rebate. I almost bought it. But I want to see apple's announcement.
When I saw the price on the iPod touch at the last announcement, it made me nervous about the ipad mini price.
I know a nexus is not an ipad, but for the price...
I told my 10 year old daughter who loves to read, and loves to read on the ipad, that if the mini was $250 we would get one. More than that we just don't "need" one. I have a lot invested in apps, etc, but at $300+ I could buy a nexus and still spend $50+ on apps for it.
Costco this weekend had the 7 inch galaxy for about $180 after rebate. I almost bought it. But I want to see apple's announcement.
When I saw the price on the iPod touch at the last announcement, it made me nervous about the ipad mini price.
I know a nexus is not an ipad, but for the price...
from an exclusive iOS user, nexus 7 is really good - at $249 with quad core and other tech specs. it is very good.
if apple price the iPad mini anything over $299 - I do not think it is good idea. hey what we know, they always sell like hot cakes.
for me I am looking forward to facetime HD camera, I do lots of chatting with friends and family (in Skype and FaceTime), otherwise I will wait it out for couple of years.
if apple price the iPad mini anything over $299 - I do not think it is good idea. hey what we know, they always sell like hot cakes.
for me I am looking forward to facetime HD camera, I do lots of chatting with friends and family (in Skype and FaceTime), otherwise I will wait it out for couple of years.
I'm just saying there are different rumors and they're not all pointing to the exact same thing. Where's the rumor that specifically states an 8GB device will retail for $329?
Nope they haven't. And won't. But they might have an 8GB storage, if Apple wants that. After all they could be positioning this as the very light user device. Those that just read regular books, email, surf the web, play lightweight games like solitaire. Textbooks might stay on the bigger device while this could replace the iPad 2 as the 'cheap' model
I'm a teacher as well and that is exactly my reaction. I'm the proud owner of an iPad 2, but most school districts cannot afford boutique prices. Every teacher I know is dying to put tablets to use in their classrooms but money is the big issue.
Perhaps these prices aren't correct, but if they are, Apple just ceded a huge chunk of the K-12 market to Amazon or Google. Everyone knows those products are far less capable than his device will be, and you will see some limited adoption from wealthier districts, but Apple had the chance to close the market for the next ten years--like they did for music players with the iPod shuffle.
At $249.00, adoption would have been nearly total. The "killer app" was supposed to be price.
A shame if real.
Except that the columnist forgets that the Fire is cheap looking and locked into a much more limited marketplace. Plus there's the issues of timely service for issues, backlash over the whole password/parental controls.
Folks have proven they are willing to pay more to Apple for similar items, even slightly lesser in terms of specs. This could prove to be another case of the 'cult' of 'isheep' 'blindly' getting whatever deems to give them without a fuss
I think $329 is just a false rumor setup by apple to surprise us at $299[/QUOTE]
I was going to say exactly the same thing...
Apple could have just spreaded this price as they also did when they launched the iPad a few years ago.
It makes us all think whether we can afford it or not (I truly respect those who cannot pay the extra $30) and most of us would be waiting for that moment in the keynote where they state the price range.
I am sure it would be either $249 or $299 for the entry model and all of us would think, Oh! That's not too bad, I thought it was going to be $329. I'll get one then...
It's marketing and we would think Apple is doing us a favour...
I will personally go for the 64Gb model anyway.
Can't waittttttttttt
I was going to say exactly the same thing...
Apple could have just spreaded this price as they also did when they launched the iPad a few years ago.
It makes us all think whether we can afford it or not (I truly respect those who cannot pay the extra $30) and most of us would be waiting for that moment in the keynote where they state the price range.
I am sure it would be either $249 or $299 for the entry model and all of us would think, Oh! That's not too bad, I thought it was going to be $329. I'll get one then...
It's marketing and we would think Apple is doing us a favour...
I will personally go for the 64Gb model anyway.
Can't waittttttttttt
Nowhere. iPad mini with the same 16/32/64 and WiFi/3G configurations as the iPad 3, and starting at $329, that makes sense. Selling a reduced version (8 GB) at $229 would make some sense if Apple _really_ wants to hurt the competition, that was rumored somewhere. $329 for 8GB doesn't make sense. 8 GB _does_ limit the user. I've downloaded one book that was 1.5 GB alone.
Schools don't pay retail prices.
a) there will be four sizes, most likely to be 8/16/32/64
b) price will start at $329
I haven't seen any proof contrary to these statements, so basic logic makes me think that the 8GB will cost $329
I'm shocked at how many supposed apple fans are shocked by this news. I can't believe anyone who has followed anything apple has done over the past 10 years would think they would price it below $200 or even $250. They sell the idea of premium products, premium experience, paying a premium price to feel special. The iPad mini is not, and never was supposed to be an ipad-cheap. The smaller screen is not a trade-off for a lower price, so the iPad 2 price is inconsequential. Its aimed at people who want a smaller form factor iPad, not people who are willing to settle for a smaller screen so they can afford it.
As for competing with the kindle argument... why does apple care about competing with the kindle? They sold relatively well , but nothing even close to the number of full-price, full-size iPads. It doesn't make sense for apple to give up their margins when they are already destroying the supposed competition.
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Apple and Google are in two entirely different markets. Google and Amazon would be a better market comparison. Amazon wants you to buy their hardware in order to get hooked into their content ecosystem. So they sell you a Kindle Fire at cost (or damn close to it) and make their money on the back end selling you other stuff. Google is somewhat in the same boat, only swap out content for ads. They want you using as many of their services as possible so they have many points of contact to hit you with ads.
Apple on the other hand wants to sell you hardware and uses the software to tie it all together. They use higher quality build materials when making their products and, as a result, it costs a little more. But it's the reason the MBP as an aluminum unibody shell while most PC laptops have plastic. It's why the iPhone is made of aluminum and glass while the GSIII, Galaxy Nexus, One X, Galaxy Note, etc are all made of plastic. They focus more on making better quality hardware because their main money making focus is on the front end.