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Hi. Yha, I do remember the iPad release being like that. In my recount, I guess I meant the first iPhone cost......thanks for the read.
QUOTE=Unspeaked;18982022]I've got to correct you there - at the time the iPad was released, it was considered amazingly cheap!
I remember the analysts were predicting it would easily cost $1,000 plus, and their jaws dropped when it came out at the price point it did. And much like some of the posts here, there were people saying it would be impossible for Apple to make it for less than 4 figures (remember, this is long before touchscreens and even solid state drives were commonly available in quantity) and they somehow did.
I think that's one of the reasons it took so long for competitors to catch up; the word on the street back then is they were all sitting back waiting for Apple to announce their thousand dollar tablet, and they were all going to jump in right behind with their "cheap" $700 or $800 tablets, but instead were simply left in the dust.
It's actually the one time I remember Apple releasing something that just totally shattered the pre-release price expectations on the lower end of the scale.[/QUOTE]
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Hi. Yha, I do remember the iPad release being like that. In my recount, I guess I meant the first iPhone cost......thanks for the read.
QUOTE=Unspeaked;18982022]I've got to correct you there - at the time the iPad was released, it was considered amazingly cheap!
I remember the analysts were predicting it would easily cost $1,000 plus, and their jaws dropped when it came out at the price point it did. And much like some of the posts here, there were people saying it would be impossible for Apple to make it for less than 4 figures (remember, this is long before touchscreens and even solid state drives were commonly available in quantity) and they somehow did.
I think that's one of the reasons it took so long for competitors to catch up; the word on the street back then is they were all sitting back waiting for Apple to announce their thousand dollar tablet, and they were all going to jump in right behind with their "cheap" $700 or $800 tablets, but instead were simply left in the dust.
It's actually the one time I remember Apple releasing something that just totally shattered the pre-release price expectations on the lower end of the scale.[/QUOTE]