$299 iPad 2 Would Upend Tablet Market but it’s Unlikely - denhamgoolifter

As surmisal o'er Apple's next iPad reaches its usual fever pitch, tech watchers are straightaway wondering whether Apple will welt iPad 2 prices to get a piece of the low-end tablet market.

DigiTimes, the hit-or-miss source rear so many Apple rumors, thinks the iPad 2 will betray for $299 and up alongside a more pricy iPad with a higher-solution display. For what it's worth, the source of this information seems to beryllium pure speculation from "DigiTimes Research" instead than the emblematic unnamed supply chain sources, so I recommend an even bigger helping of salt than usual.

$299 iPad 2 Would Upend Tablet Market but it's Unlikely

Still, it's fun to excogitate how a $299 iPad would affect the tablet food market, and you don't give to be an Apple Stock Champion to realize that many rival tablet makers would be ill-starred by such contralto pricing.

Apple's detractors may say that Humanoid tablets are superior merely the reality is that Apple made a thin, light, fast, simple tablet with tons of apps, and to the highest degree hoi polloi are choosing the iPad over similarly priced Android tablets with slightly better eyeglasses, but fewer apps and a more compound OS. Tablets that have dared to match the iPad's cost are acquiring no traction. Only the nickel-and-dime ones, such as Amazon's Kindle Flame, are prospering.

What happens if Apple goes even cheaper? IT's back to feather one for many rival tablet makers, sweet-faced either with competitory on user know or on price. Apple wouldn't exist providing some breathing elbow room on either front.

The only question — and it's a big one — is what would Apple gain away targeting the low end of the food market. Slashing profits to chase market partake would be uncharacteristic of Orchard apple tree, and a $200 price incised for the iPad 2 would constitute not only a big ritual killing, but a threat to more expensive iPad models. Orchard apple tree could use cheaper parts to build an affordable tablet, but that would also be strange for the accompany. (Call up, Apple never made a netbook later pundits thought it was inevitable.)

Soh with all due respect to DigiTimes Research, I get into't think budget tablet makers should panic equitable as yet. And if you're saving up for an iPad, you might want to keep making installments to the penny bank.

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