Wait... 399$ is the price of The New iPad 3. I doubt iPad Mini will have the same pricing.Hoping for $249, expecting $299, wouldn't be surprised if $399
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No way in hell iPad Mini will be $250. Not Even $299. Try $350 or higher...
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In light of rumors about the Nexus 7" dropping to $99, there is no point whatsoever in Apple's competing at the low end.
Impossible. Nexus 7 is already being sold at a loss for Google and they sell for 199-249$
Impossible why? It's certainly a rumor that has some life to it.
http://global.christianpost.com/news/google-nexus-7-tablet-price-to-drop-to-99-82936/
People here are all caught up in the "Apple HAS to compete with $199 tablets" furor that they ignore the likelihood that the Google and Amazon would react to any such low-ball competition by going lower. That's a pretty darn good reason why Apple would not enter a race to the bottom.
i dont think so. Looks like the 32gb will be $249 and the 16gb will drop to $199. They might just drop the 8gb.
if a $99 tablet does exist it must be a completely different spec
What? Nobody thinks Google and Amazon haven't considered a possible move by someone to enter their price market? They're going for hearts and minds and they have the ability to undercut competition. Like I said, people are so gung-ho about Apple needing to get it's price really low but they ignore the possibility that "low" can always go "lower."
People PLEASE get over it. The iPad Mini & iPod Touch are TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT products & could target different groups or the same group that could buy both.
The price CAN get to the $199-249 range easily. Kill off the competition COMPLETELY and gain more iTune & AppStore purchases. It seems like some of you WANT to pay a premium just because Apple says so.
The price CAN get to the $199-249 range easily. Kill off the competition COMPLETELY and gain more iTune & AppStore purchases. It seems like some of you WANT to pay a premium just because Apple says so.
Agreed. Apple is at the point where they don't have to sell hardware at premium prices anymore. Releasing cheap tablet is just a perfect way to gain more consumers who buy in AppStore making 30% margin off of each purchase directly to Apple. Same story about Android Market and Google Nexus 7. They even sell it at a price point where they initially loose money only to make even more off your android market purchases. That's the strategy Apple wants to take releasing iPad Mini.
It would be amazing if they went for a very eye catching price. It would kill the rest of the tablet market stone dead.
Yes, but I fear if Apple decides to sell it at 249$ or even 199$ it's gonna be really crap device possibly worse than iPad 2. Can't wait to see what Apple cooked for us this time
You're just wrong. Apple does not make money on content. They may at some future date but so far they haven't. They take about 30% from sales but that goes to administering the sales, servers, marketing, etc. (it costs a lot of money to maintain that infrastructure). They had $6 billion in revenue from the iTunes store last year but no profit to speak of. That's not why they do it. Amazon and Google profit solely from their content sales - that's how their businesses work.
If the mini had all the good stuff on it, including camera, 3G (at least) wifi, decent resolution, hopefully, lots of HD space to upgrade to, it will cost. And I will pay. Just to be able to carry it in my pocketbook, it will be like having another computer with me at all times. My new iPad is a bit heavy for that. That will be my "upstairs" computer at home, second tv, too, with the tv app.
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Couldn't be more wrong. First of all Apple isn't powerful enough to kill the Kindle Fire (or any others). Secondly, Amazon's business model is different from Apple's in that they (Amazon) don't make money off the device, they make money off the content users consume on the device, which means, they (Amazon) will lower their price if Apple enters this market. Apple is *not* that stupid to enter a price war, they will lose, and Amazon will win. Apple makes money (high margins!) off the hardware, they don't subsidise devices like Amazon does, so they will not compete head to head against Amazon, and they won't do it with a device that is inferior in specs. Stop talking costs, that's not Apple's market or USP.
Exactly! Thank you so much, I read your posts and can't agree more vehemently with what you're saying - someone who understands this whole issue, thank you!
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Sorry if someone said this before, it's getting difficult to remember all the twists and turns of this discussion, but what do you think if the mini starts at $350, for 32 GB wifi only, with pretty much the same hardware specs as the 5th gen touch, and the only difference is screen size? And the screen is not retina, but is the same quality as the iPad 2.
I'm thinking if you market this right, it could sell, even if it's not hitting the low price range of the Nexus and the Kindle.
I'm thinking if you market this right, it could sell, even if it's not hitting the low price range of the Nexus and the Kindle.
heh heh , you need to get the rumor straight.... the $99 tablet is a different tablet than Nexus 7 and has not be named yet...
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/t...have-higher-resolution-display-ipad-1C6358914
Shim told CNET that the new Nexus tablet will be a "high-end device," so think $400 or $500, rather than the sub-$200 range of the Nexus 7 and the rumored $99 Google tablet.
And the iPad with cellular starts at $630. So siurpeeman is right, the iPhone is more expensive than the iPad.
right... but the ipad is much bigger.. easier to build. making smaller components is harder. you are fitting all the same tech in a much smaller iphone.. a lot hard to assemble, a lot more expensive to buy parts for etc.
its much cheaper and easier to build an ipad, than an iphone.. thus the prices