He also said that multitasking is not needed. Steve Jobs first and foremost was a salesmen, so you take what he says on a subject with a grain of salt.
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'iPad Mini' Pricing to Begin at Approximately $329
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He also said that multitasking is not needed. Steve Jobs first and foremost was a salesmen, so you take what he says on a subject with a grain of salt.
Are u trying to say iDevices have no place in business?Living in the past ain't going to make up for the fact that windows 7 has never "froze" on me. Once. In two years.
I hated Windows ME, etc, but MSFT has stepped their game up. Then again I use my computer for productive "work" while my apple iphone for "play"
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i get it.
I just feel that Steve Jobs was not Apple. There is lots of other talent.
I think everyone forgot how Google and Asus* is not making any profits with the Nexus 7, or Amazon with their Kindle Fire*. By setting the price for the iPad mini at $329, they have themselves a healthy 30% profit margin, good news for investors, not so good news for consumers.
I figure it will start at 16 all the way to 64GB
I figure it will start at 16 all the way to 64GB
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so if apple don't do something they're right and when they do do something they're right because different people in apple have different ideas?
win -win yay!
but does this not mean theyre wrong all the time too? haha
You're completely misunderstanding what I wrote and what these entities are all about. Yes, they are about making money for Apple, but their whole reasons for being are to make their hardware more valuable, so they can continue charging prices that give them high margins.
Amazon, Google, and B&N produce devices so they can sell more content. Apple created the App Store/iTMS/etc. in order to sell more hardware at high prices. Completely the flipped to the other guys and their business models.
So even if we use your numbers a 40% loss of market share is nothing?
Apple is making a huge mistake here. Android is almost at the same level in terms of OS. All the useful apps are available on android. The price point is lower, and it really is the perfect storm for android to take over the market.
Then instead of being the leader in the market, apple will claim to be a niche market. Circa, apple's role pre-Jobs return.
what mistake is that? Not selling a product at cost?
Same level in OS I think not. My proof your on a Apple forum.
A perfect storm just because the price is lower? Humm how long will that last?
It is to expected of such low-barriers market to have increasing competition and market shares being divided amongst many competitors.
I probably don't know Apple inside knowledge and strategy, but whatever they're doing with the price is to preserve the profits, as well as the Apple brand, which is without a doubt the world most valuable brand name for quite some time now.
If Apple gets the iPad mini PR just right, it will be a big success. People are willing to pay more for the Apple on their gadgets, its proven. Sales of about 30% of the smartphone market (probably a little less, I'm not sure), but they hold over 60% of the profit, whatever you think they're doing wrong at capturing market share, they're getting it right with the profits, and hopefully this profits will go into new (hopefully) innovative products.
exactly, $30 more is a turn off? Make dinner at home one extra night this month rather than go out and you are all set.
Maybe there is a difference in tactics, but each has exactly the same goal - to take money out of your pocket and to put it into theirs.
Google /HTC does the Nexus 7. Amazon does the Fire, Neither tablet makes any profit, they are sold at cost or a loss and are effectively being "dumped" to gain marketshare. Apple is here to make money off hw that plays in their iTunesi/iCloud ecosytem. Google is here to make sure their their search/advertising monopoly continues, Amazon is here to ensure you are locked into buying books and other media from them as they try to monoplize the publishing business. Different ways to make $.
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exactly.
In a sense he was apple - he set the tone, the direction pushed the developers and designers to produce products they didn't think they could.
As for the iPad mini - he only stated a smaller tablets are no good is because they didn't have one. Why praise a competitor's product or choice in size?
It sounds like they really don't know what the pricing is and the article was written to generate webpage hits. In any case, we will know in a day.
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Why don't you wait to find out if it's the real pricing before you panic
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A correct me if I'm wrong at the time he stated that the blackberry play book was the only 7" tablet out at that time. It did a few things very well but overall it was a flop.
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And I'm suppose to believe you honestly planed to buy an iPad mini for $299? $30 more is just say too expensive. What gives u away as a troll is "Guess it will be Samsung or Nexus for me"
Yup, I guess you're right. Why else would iTunes be available on windows, but to sell Macs!
Yes Apple sell hardware, but they are also a business. Businesses exist to make money in whatever way they see fit. Businesses that evolve survive, those that don't will die.
I'm probably way off here, but I'd have thought that a reason for coming up with a smaller ipad would be to bring new people in to the Apple ecosystem. People who can't afford an iPad, get tempted in to buying an ipad mini, invest time and money on apps/content etc... then, when they have more money in future, and are looking to upgrade to a bigger tablet, they stay with apple because of their app/content investment.
For this to work, the smaller iPad would have to be competitively priced against the likes on Nexus/Kindle, etc...
A short term hit, but in the longer run it means both more customers and profits for Apple.
If Steve Jobs had always gotten his way, the iMac would have been called "MacMan."
I think the point of the mini is not to be a cheaper version of the regular iPad. I think the point is to be a smaller/easier to hold in your hand version. For this reason, I think we should probably expect the mini to be priced as stated $329, but with all the capabilities of the "new iPad". With that in mind, it's probably a fair price, but it's also probably still too high. With all the smaller tablets out there already priced in the $200-$300 range, people will feel that's simply too high and Apple may have missed an opportunity here.