Showing posts with label ipad mini. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ipad mini. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Ouch, Apple Just Priced themselves out of the Mini Tablet Market.

     
 
© Apple.com

     Yes its official Apples iPad Mini is going to cost $329. The magic number for me would have been a simple $300 if you really want to take away the market from players like Google's Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire HD.
     
     Apple has had a lot of success with the iPad and has been dominant in the tablet market but this is not going to do them any good. Millions of Units would be sold no mistake about that but it wont be long and consumers would soon realize that Android is a better alternative when you consider price. The only way apple can stop this mistake is if they introduce some truly unique feature that would keep the iPad mini a way better device than others. They have only succeded in bringing their tablets into a position where it is fair game to compare an apple tablet to other android options. If Apple's competitors were making poor quality products this would be a wise option but android has improved vastly on quality and are now legit alternatives.

   Apple you might have brought more harm to yourselves than good. The type of harm you would only realize years later. Mark my words years later. If you have run out of ideas for creating a wow factor entering another competitors space doesn't necessarily solve the problem.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Ladies and Gentilmen, The iPad Mini

Ladies and Gentilmen, 

The iPad Mini

The iPad Mini © Apple


Yes it is here and the Rumors were right the iPad Mini is born. The tech wars are getting even more heated up and I think the tablet space is shifting faster than you think. The iPad Mini might be the final blow that kills Apples Competitors or Apple itself !!!
I am really loving this.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Apples Rumored iPad Mini Could Totally Destroy The Competition

The First Generation  iPad: Image © Evan Amos from Wikimedia

               Another Apple product is about to be born, the iPad mini. This tablet device is targeted at taking a piece of the growing mini-tablet market. This market created by Apples competitors allowed them to create a niche in the tablet market upon which they could grow. But there seems to be a lack of optimism in the stock market after seeing Apple stock fall in the past month. 
 
               This move by Apple might just break the back of its competitors. The iPad is priced at $499 and the price point for Google's flagship tablet the Nexus7 and the Kindle Fire are both priced around $200. Now the big question that Tablet manufacturers will be asking themselves is this, what will be the price of the iPad mini. If Apple prices their new tablet at $300 or $250, all hell will break loose. The orders will sky rocket. I see 10 million iPad minis being sold before the end of the year. This is really crucial for the direction of the tech industry, with windows getting ready to release its first tablet together their amazing new operating system Windows 8 which is also being priced around the $200 price mark. I don’t know about you but this is going to end up being a very revealing month for the tech industry, with reports of the PC market slowing down what is going to happen to Microsoft and android if Apple come up with a price point tempting enough to cause people to finally switch to Apple? That could cause Apple to see its share of the tablet market increase dramatically (a market in which it comfortably dominates and is regarded as the standard). 
             
         I think Apple will go for a price point of 300. We know Apple prefers low volume high margin, that has been their model for sometime under Steve Jobs, but Tim Cook is now calling the shots and he decided to create a smaller tablet that Steve never approved of. We can only keep guessing until Apples reveal day rumored to be 25th October 2012