\nthat if sales of the iPad aren’t brisk enough, it will drop the price.
\nI expect it will have to, if the company is to have any hope of hitting
\nthe 1-5 million sales analysts are projecting in the first year. $500
\nis pretty steep for a netbook without a keyboard.<\/p>\n
The question, One estimate is that the cheapest Still, they can probably cut the cost deep Remember the kerfuffle over the original iPhone? Apple charged luxe prices for the first few months, and then after it had wrung every possible dollar out of the early adopters, dropped the cost to capture more price-sensitive users. Many of those who had bought early reacted with the righteous fury of a wronged spouse. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nof course, is “how low can Apple go?” Apple could afford to drop
\nprices significantly on iPhones, because they were driving big volume<\/a>.
\nI just can’t imagine that they’re going to push 30 million iPads out
\nthe door in the first 3-4 years of its existence; it’s ultimately
\nsomething of a niche product.<\/p>\n
\niPad costs $270 to manufacture. Throw in advertising, transportation,
\ndistribution, and so forth, and maybe they can cut the price $100 if
\nthey’re willing to make a slim profit in order to establish a market.
\nOf course, there’s probably more room on the high-end models, and
\npresumably costs will fall as they get more experience, and volume.
\nBut I don’t see them getting within striking distance of a Kindle
\nparticularly soon.<\/p>\n
\nenough to make it worth waiting for. So why announce it? It seems to
\nme that this practically guarantees a slow start to sales.
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