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Even if it does appear, I can't see it being £250. iPhones cost more than twice the much.
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Thing is that the iphone5/iOS6 damp squibs suggest that Apple are almost at the end of the line for innovation and features, they've got some brand loyalty to milk yet, but really the only aspect they've got to play with to ensure large sales is price. They're going to have to bring it in relatively cheaply compared to what they might have charged a couple of years ago, otherwise they're finished.
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Looks like it, unless they come up with some new ideas or start making washing machines soon! Just look at how Nokia once ruled the mobile industry. Past performance is no guarantee of future product sales in these sectors! Cheap ipad minis is the only thing that will give the brand a couple of years extra life.
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i think the pricepoint will be interesting. if they can bring it in at the £150-£160 mark, they'd potentially put a huge dent in the android tablet market.
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i think the pricepoint will be interesting. if they can bring it in at the £150-£160 mark, they'd potentially put a huge dent in the android tablet market.
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i don't think they will either because they know they can set pretty much any price they want and people will pay it.
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Apple have no desire to be seen as cheap, or even "affordable". Completely goes against how they position themselves in the market.
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i think the pricepoint will be interesting. if they can bring it in at the £150-£160 mark, they'd potentially put a huge dent in the android tablet market.
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Apple have no desire to be seen as cheap, or even "affordable". Completely goes against how they position themselves in the market.
It was only Jobs and Ives (designer) that rescued them. What happened to the original Apple, and the likes of Psion, Nokia, RIM, all show that Apple cannot rest on their laurels for a moment. Ipad Mini pricing is going to be absolutely key to keeping them in the market for a couple more years until some fresh innovations come up to keep them going. |
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They sent themselves very nearly into oblivion in the mid nineties.
It was only Jobs and Ives (designer) that rescued them. What happened to the original Apple, and the likes of Psion, Nokia, RIM, all show that Apple cannot rest on their laurels for a moment. Ipad Mini pricing is going to be absolutely key to keeping them in the market for a couple more years until some fresh innovations come up to keep them going. |
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i think the pricepoint will be interesting. if they can bring it in at the £150-£160 mark, they'd potentially put a huge dent in the android tablet market.
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That would be interesting. Plus I wonder how the people who dismissed the Nexus out of hand with "if you pay cheap you get cheap" will rationalise that!
![]() I think the Touch is probably aimed more at the younger end of the market, but it's a good point about it potentially harming those sales though. I suppose it'll come down to what Apple's attitude towards the tablet market is. If the Mini is priced upwards of £200 quid, then I'd say they're probably happy to just let things be. If they do bring it in around the £150 mark, they clearly want the lion's share of the market overall. |
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Well I'll be darned.
Tech review sites etc have almost pretended that there is no GPS on the Nexus so my expectation was that the Mini would simply have no GPS. As many of their developers got IO6 in advance it might well be that the Mini does have GPS. That silence is as likely down to those new maps. But I'd still say Mini for games, Nexus for everything else. |
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Mini had better be available in a with-GPS variant, even if it's at a £30-£40 surcharge over basic models. It's just another standard chip on the board these days. If Apple really are bloody-minded enough to deliberately leave something like GPS out of the mini they will deserve to go down.
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Mini had better be available in a with-GPS variant, even if it's at a £30-£40 surcharge over basic models. It's just another standard chip on the board these days. If Apple really are bloody-minded enough to deliberately leave something like GPS out of the mini they will deserve to go down.
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