Analyst: People Are Overpaying Apple for 128 GB iPad 4

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I say make these tablets a little thicker and makes the back removable. Let customers upgrade RAM and drive space, replace battery, etc. Let people easily repair their tablets!!!!! Everything is throw away and it's a waste, a shame and we should be more responsible towards the environment. Most people would love an SD card and removable back, they would sell amazingly well.
 
If you don't like Apple, buy something else. It is actually quite simple when you think about it. However, paying $100.00 more for double the memory is not terrible. There are so many other costs involved which does not include the labor, the marketing, and Latency time between store->shelf->to consumer.

Everyone complaining but if you are working for Apple or working for a company that makes products, you would like to be paid a good salary too....

The best thing to happen to anyone here complaining about $65.00 markup should 1 - get laid off today, 2 - get fired, 3 - customers should stop visiting your establishment or 4 - you suffer some tremendous loss of income through some unforeseen fault of your own..

When you start working for a less than nothing and complain you are not getting paid what you are worth then you can understand why $65.00 is not so bad....

 
[citation][nom]hoofhearted[/nom]And it is not the memory they are overpaying for. It is the fact that it is impossible to upgrade yourself and the fact that there is not SD expansion.[/citation]

Name a tablet you can upgrade the memory on. Go ahead, I'll wait.
 
I actually don't mind it when companies charge a lot for upgrades or extra parts as long as they provide an option to go around their "premium service". For the guy who doesn't mind shelling out a bunch of money for the convenience or the name brand of "genuine parts", go ahead an charge an arm and a leg. But don't try and lock out the guy who wants to do it himself for cheaper or the startup company who wants to compete for upgrade and replacement parts. Let me buy an iMac with no memory and let me easily install all the memory I want from Crucial or others.

My furnace broke when a simple circuit board shorted out. The board cost $500 to replace and it looked like something I would see in a 30 year old computer. It probably cost the company $20 to manufacture but they can charge whatever they want because no one else can make it. They made sure of that.
 
Nobody overpays, its a free market.

The shlob thinks...hey it's only $100 and I get 64MB more. I can add "x" amount of more movies, more junk...it's worth it.
 
See, I don't get this. Regardless if they are "expensive" in the minds of consumers they should be able to charge whatever they want. Apple products are NOT a necessity for human life and therefor it is not required you spend your cash on them.

So, if it costs them 188 to build a device and they charge close to 400 for it... it is non of anyone's damn business the price markup just for the simple fact you don't need it to survive. I mean damn, they are the ones who designed and built the damn thing. How much did THAT cost.
 
[citation][nom]wildkitten[/nom]Let's be honest, Apple isn't the only company who charges way to much money for a little bit of extra RAM. It's wrong for ALL the companies to do it.[/citation]

Yes, but Apple is known to do it worse than most, so they get extra flack.
 
[citation][nom]twelve25[/nom]Ridiculous assertion. Honest apples to apples (ha, a pun!) comparisons will find Apple charging more like 10-20% more than the competition. Try it and see, being honest and using things like an SSD, IPS high-res screens, slim form factor, etc.[/citation]

Maybe in some situations, the difference is that low, but I have tried it and seen that in many of Apple's systems, the difference is far[]/i] greater than 10-20% more. Some of Apple's products are also using outdated components such as Core 2 and Nehalem CPUs or Radeon 5000 series graphics as the best options. They've gotten a little better about using up to date components, but they have a ways to go and I doubt they care to continue that path anyway.
 
[citation][nom]teh_chem[/nom]Virtually every vendor does this for every upgrade option. Customize any big-name computer option and go from 6GB base RAM to 12GB--it's about a $180 upgrade cost, yet a 12GB RAM kit only runs around $75-85.It's the easiest way for computer and device manufacturers to generate profit. Nothing new or newsworthy here. And sadly, people will still pay for these upgrades.[/citation]

You seem to be confusing RAM and NAND. They are not the same. You are right that this overcharging issue is even worse with RAM, but don't confuse different types of memory.
 


I am sure this is bait, but MANY android tablets allow expansion with SDHC cards.

(waits for response that flash cards aren't technically memory, even though we all know what is being talked about here)
 



Many do not either. Including the ones that everyone raves about. Nexus and Fire for instance. I'd rather not use dog slow SD cards personally. And I really don't consider that much of a storage option. The reason many Android manufacturers don't include it is cost. Important when you are selling for cost. There is the parts cost, and the cost of paying Microsoft a license.
 
I just wanted to post that it is important to understand that the term "overpriced" is in the eyes of the beholder. Don't like Apple products at that price point? Don't buy them. Simple, freedom-based, decision making. Why some advocate some kind of "fairness law" is beyond me...that Marxist doctrine is a proven failure. Let the market decide. To be clear...I think they are overpriced too...but if there is a market at that price point, who am I to judge? I'll just vote with my wallet. I don't buy Prada crap either. 😉 Given all that, I am not sure I understand the point of the article. It's a "So What?" to me...unless you happen to enjoy "eat the rich", populist drivel...Peace.
 
Been inside an I-pad, an I-phone, and a I-Pad.
Built quality, let me honestly say Sniff, cough! well, well. now that is interesting.
Anyone who has had this pleasure !

Will know why the damned things are so hard to get into.

Once you have, you begin to question, why it is apple make such a device hard to get into. Then it dawns on you the reason why it is so hard to get into.
And let me say you paying for a name, nothing else at all. At a premium price.
That is your choice and money. If a company does not sell enough stock ect, the share holders jump ship, because at the end of the day all they want is to make more money, and F to the rest of you, put it blatantly.


 


Most Android tablets (maybe except the garbage ones using several years old hardware and such, but those are hardly tablets anyway) do have SD expansion or at least USB expansion (granted the latter is obviously less convenient). Also, there are many affordable high-speed SD cards. Still I see your point, but at least with Android, you have the option of buying tablets with such features. You have no such option at all with Apple.
 
[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]Yes, but Apple is known to do it worse than most, so they get extra flack.[/citation]
Actually Sony and many others have a "name tax" on their products and I have seen Samsung and other products charge roughly a hundred dollars for a doubling of the RAM in computerized electronics.
 
[citation][nom]scannall[/nom]Many do not either. Including the ones that everyone raves about. Nexus and Fire for instance. I'd rather not use dog slow SD cards personally. And I really don't consider that much of a storage option. The reason many Android manufacturers don't include it is cost. Important when you are selling for cost. There is the parts cost, and the cost of paying Microsoft a license.[/citation]
I completely disagree. SD slots are very important and are very inexpensive to the overall cost of a tablet.

The SD cards are perfect for storage while apps can go into internal storage. But accessing documents, pictures and videos do not take any appreciable time difference to load if they are on a SD card.
 
[citation][nom]wildkitten[/nom]Actually Sony and many others have a "name tax" on their products and I have seen Samsung and other products charge roughly a hundred dollars for a doubling of the RAM in computerized electronics.[/citation]

I said most, not all 😉 RAM is something that is probably one of the worst affected components by overpricing by pretty much all companies. Also, I bought a cheap Sony TV a while ago and it was an excellent deal. Sony may have serious overpricing issues too, but it's not like they never have good deals, granted I'm sure that the same can be said about Apple too.

However, when we look at the market as a whole, Apple is often among the most overcharging for a given product. Yes, they are not alone in that. They're also hated by a lot of people, many beyond rationality, so they arguably get even more flack than they deserve, but they do deserve much of what they get. I can admit that much regardless of my own dislike for them.

Regardless, I don't think that there's any company that's never offered a product that was a bad deal, at least not in the technology industries. However, when we look at Apple, they do so on a fairly consistent track across most of their products. There are some other companies that do this or at least have done this too. For example, Dell's prices are fairly consistent in being higher than they should too, especially with Alienware systems.
 
[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]You seem to be confusing RAM and NAND. They are not the same. You are right that this overcharging issue is even worse with RAM, but don't confuse different types of memory.[/citation]
Where did I say RAM is the same as a SSD? I'm not saying RAM and disk drives are the same thing. I'm using an example of how device manufacturers price upgrades at a premium. Whether it's RAM or CPU or graphics cards or hard drive upgrades, or Apple or Lenovo--they're all exorbitantly overpriced relative to the cost of the bare components.
 
[citation][nom]teh_chem[/nom]Where did I say RAM is the same as a SSD? I'm not saying RAM and disk drives are the same thing. I'm using an example of how device manufacturers price upgrades at a premium. Whether it's RAM or CPU or graphics cards or hard drive upgrades, or Apple or Lenovo--they're all exorbitantly overpriced relative to the cost of the bare components.[/citation]

Oh, my mistake. I may have read your post wrong; sorry 🙁
 
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