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Price of new Amazon tablet could be big attraction
Reuters ^
| 09/28/11
| Alistair Barr
Posted on 09/28/2011 6:21:42 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is expected to launch its long-awaited tablet computer on Wednesday, sporting a low-enough price to give Apple Inc's iPad some serious competition for the first time.
At a news conference Wednesday morning in New York, Amazon will likely unveil a seven-inch tablet that will let users read e-books, download digital music and video games and stream movies and TV shows.
Analysts expect the tablet to be priced around $250, roughly half the price of Apple's dominant iPad, which starts at $499.
"If Amazon prices the Kindle Fire at $250, it has the potential to become the most successful competitor to the iPad," Gene Munster, an analyst at PiperJaffray, said on Tuesday.
Having its own tablet is important for Amazon because the company has amassed a mountain of digital goods and services that could be sold through such a device. As the world's largest Internet retailer, a tablet might also encourage Amazon customers to shop online for physical products more often.
Munster surveyed 410 consumers last week, asking whether they would buy a 10-inch iPad for $599 or a seven-inch Amazon tablet at $249.
Just over 60 percent of those surveyed said they would purchase the Amazon device, while 21 percent said they would likely buy the iPad, Munster reported. The analyst used a $599 price because he said that is the average price of the iPad.
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: amazon; ebooks; ereaders; hitech; hitechereaders; kindle; kindlefire; playbook; tablets
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I've read where the Kindle Fire MIGHT come with a free Amazon Prime membership which Amazon sells for $75.
To: Artemis Webb
It’s always been about price:performance.
Ifixyour.com did a Bill of Materials (BOM) analysis for the Apple iPad 64 GB wi-fi only - it was less than $300; yet retails for $699. Ample profit there, huh?
Now, we had a much of ‘me-too’ companies who made shoddy tablets, with ~1-10% of the app support; and wanted the same price point. They had their butts handed to them by Apple’s iPad (Hello Blackberry Playbook, HP Slate, Folio, Motorola Xoom). Shoddy construction, OS that simply should never have made it past QA, little to no application support after the sale. Think of a flea-market next to a high-end designer store (all for the same price); how would you spend your money?
But, if you make a product that is useful, and can get the price down substancially below that of the iPad; you may have something. Who is going to pay the Lexus price for a late model Kia? If I pay the iPad price, give me an iPad.
But, if you have something that does 90% of what I will use the iPad for, and can deliver it for half the price - you have my undivided attention.
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posted on
09/28/2011 6:35:19 AM PDT
by
Hodar
( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
To: Artemis Webb
I’m still holding out hope HP will release more $99 touchpads and I’ll somehow manage to get one.
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posted on
09/28/2011 6:46:03 AM PDT
by
lwd
To: lwd
"I’m still holding out hope HP will release more $99 touchpads and I’ll somehow manage to get one." I always find out about things like that after the fact. By the time I knew HP had done that the $99 Touchpads were long gone.
To: Artemis Webb
Will the Amazon pad use electronic ink like the Kindle currently uses?
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posted on
09/28/2011 7:03:52 AM PDT
by
Reddy
(B.O. stinks)
To: Artemis Webb
May work if you can get android apps...
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posted on
09/28/2011 7:09:23 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Artemis Webb
This will be a huge Christmas item. AMZN stock probably a good buy.
To: Artemis Webb
Fox Business is reporting that the initial price for the Amazon Kindle Fire will be $199!
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posted on
09/28/2011 7:14:42 AM PDT
by
Truth29
To: Artemis Webb
They are suppose to release more in the next few weeks but I imagine it will be like trying to get a cabbage patch kid or tickle me elmo on Christmas Eve.
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posted on
09/28/2011 7:26:01 AM PDT
by
lwd
To: onedoug
To: Artemis Webb
This has already been done. I have a $250 Barnes and Noble Nook Color rooted with Android 2.3.3 and Cyanogen Mod 7. I can run whatever I want on it. Barnes and Noble knows all about it and even sells book on the Nook counter on rooting their machine.
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09/28/2011 8:42:07 AM PDT
by
Azeem
To: Truth29; ShadowAce; Artemis Webb
To: Reddy
It appears to have a color screen which means no electronic ink — more an Ipad type display for video etc.
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posted on
09/28/2011 9:36:12 AM PDT
by
KC Burke
To: windcliff
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posted on
09/28/2011 9:50:49 AM PDT
by
onedoug
(If)
To: All; Truth29; ShadowAce; Artemis Webb
Kindle$79
Light, small and fast, with built-in Wi-Fi
Kindle Touch 3G$149
The top-of-the-line e-reader, with touch, audio, Wi-Fi, and free always-connected 3G wireless
Kindle Fire$199
Vibrant color touchscreen for web, movies, apps, games, reading and more
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To: Reddy
To: Hodar
See #16 for the lineup...
To: All
Ignore the implied links.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The only real question I have is the “and free always-connected 3G wireless”.
Just seems too good to be true. Free 3G, forever? It’s $35/month for the iPad and more for others. So, for $149 this seems just simply ‘unbelieveable’.
There has to be a catch.
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posted on
09/28/2011 10:26:51 AM PDT
by
Hodar
( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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