Apple Defends iPad Mini's $329 Price

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iPad Mini and Kindle Fire HD shouldn't even be compared, let alone be in the same sentence. Not only is the Kindle Fire HD much cheaper but it's packed with content that you would otherwise have to pay hundreds for with Apple. Get Amazon Prime which gives you tons of free content like books and movies on top of 2 day shipping guaranteed and it blows iPad mini away. Can Apple give you that for that ridiculous low price? No. Unlike Apple, Amazon doesn't rape your wallet
 
So to put it short, "We put an apple on it and charge you more money than the competition" that is basically it. They didn't seem to actually justify the price difference when compared to the competition, in fact the lack of GPS greatly crippples it compared to the competition in my opinion. The only real advantage I see is the slightly larger screen. Almost everything else are the typical trading blows comparisons you get from android and Ipad products.

Honestly I think this is more of a $250 product if they threw in a GPS, $320 is way out of line. I feel it would be competitive at 250, but when they got greedy for another 70 it pushes it past competitive into pricey. Though there will be a lot of people who only know of apple products and that their suppose to be good so their guaranteed sales.
 
What's so surprising about statements made from a marketing department chief? It is his job, throwing out lots of words that dazzles some people while having no real content (or fact) in its meaning. Anything come from marketing department should be read like a good joke, not to be taken seriously. Someone should compile a list of all statement made by marketing department before the product turns out to be turkeys, that will be fun to read.
 
[citation][nom]spartanmk2[/nom]Who cares... only the informed people know to stay away from apple and their 50% profit margin mandate.[/citation]

That's just it, people aren't informed. The ipad mini will be a success, however, because it's trendy and people are talking about it.
 
give it 6 months, and they will release another ipad mini with a higher ppi (the one they branded as retina but it's just a higher ppi that everybody else can do also)

failed miserably huh? then why is apple entering this market? because amazon and google made a market with these 7 inchers, and now apple wants a slice of the pie.

so much for "anything smaller than 9 inches is too small" huh?
 
give it 6 months, and they will release another ipad mini with a higher ppi (the one they branded as retina but it's just a higher ppi that everybody else can do also)

failed miserably huh? then why is apple entering this market? because amazon and google made a market with these 7 inchers, and now apple wants a slice of the pie.

so much for "anything smaller than 9 inches is too small" huh?
 
The article mentions the 7" Kindle Fire HD at $199 is only 8GB, but unless I read it wrong, I am pretty sure it is a 16GB model. The original was the 8GB model.
 
[citation][nom]ddpruitt[/nom]"Others have tried to make tablets smaller than the iPad and they've failed miserably,"Really, has no one clued this man in on the Nexus 7, Kindle Fire, Galaxy Tab....You know the tablets that Apple is copying.[/citation]
Actually, I was surprised that an Apple executive was so forthright about his opinion of the competition.

I suppose things like this really herald the death of Apple. It's greatest strength was its ironclad, nigh-invincible control on press briefings and marketing. To see it slip this much well that just doesn't bode well for the company.

Unless I'm missing something here and Apple execs have often been quoted as saying other products fail miserably to compete with Apple.
 
TomsApple strikes again, this silly article is biased towards Apple. "The iPad Mini least-expensive variant is $329 for the 16GB W-Fi version. Rival 7-inch tablets such as Google's Nexus 7, Amazon's Kindle Fire HD and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2.0 sell for $199. That said, these all come with a storage capacity of 8GB. Still, does an extra 8GB of storage space warrant an extra $129?" They become all anal about 8gb in storage space(which isn't a big deal[why the **** would you need an extra 8gb?]), but fails to mention the fact that the nexus 7 has a better screen resolution, a quad core processor as opposed to the mini's dual core 2 gen old tech.
 
The ipad Mini has the camera and video capabilities of the new ipad 4 so it is better than the ipad 3 in that respect. To me, it is worth the money over the 7 inch tablets. It's easy to see the quality of this product.
 
[citation][nom]bllue[/nom]iPad Mini and Kindle Fire HD shouldn't even be compared, let alone be in the same sentence. Not only is the Kindle Fire HD much cheaper but it's packed with content that you would otherwise have to pay hundreds for with Apple. Get Amazon Prime which gives you tons of free content like books and movies on top of 2 day shipping guaranteed and it blows iPad mini away. Can Apple give you that for that ridiculous low price? No. Unlike Apple, Amazon doesn't rape your wallet[/citation]

Your an idiot. Amazon has stated that they don't make any money at all from the sales of their tablets. They are selling them at cost so they can rape you later trying to sell you content.
 
[citation][nom]colson79[/nom]Your an idiot. Amazon has stated that they don't make any money at all from the sales of their tablets. They are selling them at cost so they can rape you later trying to sell you content.[/citation]
Which you would still have to buy from Apple anyway. Amazon has more sales on mp3 albums and books and overall you get more bang from your buck if you get an amazon prime membership if you shop there often. $199 + $79 prime and you get all this ton of content (including free paid apps). Even when you take the tablet and the membership it still ends up being over $50 cheaper than an iPad mini. You're still going to have to buy content on the iPad mini so Amazon isn't the only one that will try to "rape" you
 
[citation][nom]bak0n[/nom]I bought 3 kindle fire HD's right before the sales tax slap here in CA. Works perfect for everything I need it for. Plus we got book sharing across them and I don't have to ever see Itunes.[/citation]

Good comment, all magic happens without ever EVER touching iTunes.
 
the nexus 7 comes in both 8gb and 16gb. We carry the 16gb at my store. Also have the galaxy tab 2 7 and 10, and the transformer model 300TF. I have sold out of all but 1 nexus 7 as of tuesday. still have a case full of ipads. I really think the apple world is become saturated. The ipad mini should have been at most 299. at 329 why not spend the extra 70 and get the ipad2. (unless they are going to stop making the ipad2...)
 
[citation][nom]AsTheDeath[/nom]In other words: "We know it's overpriced, but people still buy it, so what would you do?"[/citation]

I think that you are right, and so do Apple when it believes that. Apple wants to be "upper class" product, so that they can maintain high profit margin. It is actually guite clever in economicall perspect.
Normal user will think what he gets for his money, Apple user gains "luxury" item and have to pay for it. Is it sensible, maybe not but neither are expensive sport cars. Still many people want to have them...
 
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