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To: Hodar

for a 7” tablet / pad, the goal price should be $50.

it is all a matter of mass production.

remember the early calculators?
remember the early digital watches?

we need a texas instraments determination to shrink the price.


33 posted on 09/28/2011 2:21:45 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory

The BOM on the calculator supported the price structure you are talking about.

However, the cost of LCD display, touch-screen front, the multi-core chipsets involved, 1 Gig of RAM, SDRAM, as well as the wi-fi/Bluetooth/GPS/solid state gyro-scopes and accelerometers are well beyond that price point. As-is, Amazon is predicted to be selling each kFire at a $50 loss.

Apple could conceively drop them $200 and still make a $100 profit on the iPads; but why would they? They are selling far, far more than any ‘expert’ predicted.

Remember just over a year ago they were predicted to be a total and complete flop? I think that Amazon needs to re-think their strategy, because it’s never a good idea to buy marketshare. Ask HP/Dell how buying marketshare has worked for them.


35 posted on 09/28/2011 2:29:56 PM PDT by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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To: longtermmemmory
for a 7” tablet / pad, the goal price should be $50.

It should be free if they gear it toward all paid content (or advertising subsidised content).

36 posted on 09/28/2011 2:31:35 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: longtermmemmory

The goal, yes, but the reality is such that today an iPad, for example, costs Apple almost $300 to manufacture, so what are you going to do? (There have been pretty detailed breakdowns of the costs published in the press.)


40 posted on 09/28/2011 2:43:00 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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