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Posted 09 July 2012 - 08:39 AM

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  Posted 09 July 2012 - 09:59 AM

It's starting to look a lot like Christmas!The tablet race is heating up,but I don't think Apple is going to win this one.
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  Posted 09 July 2012 - 11:36 AM

Post PC is shaping up. Should every business, big and small, consider getting for their employees like the smartphone?
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  Posted 09 July 2012 - 12:03 PM

There are those of us who already have an excellent 7" tablet - the Blackberry Playbook.
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  Posted 09 July 2012 - 12:09 PM

The BlackBerry Playbook is already an excellent 7" tablet...
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 01:11 PM

View Postjamtech, on 09 July 2012 - 09:59 AM, said:

It's starting to look a lot like Christmas!The tablet race is heating up,but I don't think Apple is going to win this one.

Apple may not 'win' IF they enter the 7" market, but I can promise you they won't lose either if they don't.
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  Posted 09 July 2012 - 01:32 PM

Hard to believe that Apple will launch a 7" tablet. Apple never enter a market unless there are fat margins ahead...
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 01:33 PM

View Postjamtech, on 09 July 2012 - 09:59 AM, said:

It's starting to look a lot like Christmas!The tablet race is heating up,but I don't think Apple is going to win this one.

Define "win".
If I dispute one single point in a post, that should not be taken as an indication that I agree/disagree with any other point made by that poster or anyone else in the thread. Or anywhere else. Ever.
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  Posted 09 July 2012 - 03:02 PM

Apple won't win the 7inch tablet race unless they make the price in the $200 range. No one wants to spend $400-$600 bucks on a 7inch tablet.
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 03:16 PM

View Postkenyabrunson, on 09 July 2012 - 03:02 PM, said:

Apple won't win the 7inch tablet race unless they make the price in the $200 range. No one wants to spend $400-$600 bucks on a 7inch tablet.

no one is going to win the 7 inch tablet race at $200
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 03:51 PM

View Postnonseq, on 09 July 2012 - 03:16 PM, said:

View Postkenyabrunson, on 09 July 2012 - 03:02 PM, said:

Apple won't win the 7inch tablet race unless they make the price in the $200 range. No one wants to spend $400-$600 bucks on a 7inch tablet.

no one is going to win the 7 inch tablet race at $200


My theory is, they'll sell it for $300, and still manage a $150 margin, which is about the same as that of the $400 iPad 2 (http://www.techspot....tes-reveal.html), and also makes for a clean sequence of iPad prices in $100 increments. It won't compete on price with the Fire and Nexus 7, but the lure of an app store full of proper tablet apps will draw people away from the cheaper competition. It may not destroy the competition outright, but it will cripple their chances of building an ecosystem.
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  Posted 09 July 2012 - 11:05 PM

and by next year it will be insane...with nexus 8,9,10,ipad 4 and mini 2, fire and nook3, surface RT 2....all competing in the sub-500 space.




am i getting too ahead of myself?
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Posted 10 July 2012 - 03:59 AM

View Postnonseq, on 09 July 2012 - 03:16 PM, said:

View Postkenyabrunson, on 09 July 2012 - 03:02 PM, said:

Apple won't win the 7inch tablet race unless they make the price in the $200 range. No one wants to spend $400-$600 bucks on a 7inch tablet.

no one is going to win the 7 inch tablet race at $200


Consumers are going to win with tablets racing down the $200 mark (or possibly lower, if the speculation of the older Kindle Fire's price drop is accurate). And, for that, I'll celebrate.
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Posted 10 July 2012 - 07:46 AM

View PostJaredNewman, on 09 July 2012 - 03:51 PM, said:

View Postnonseq, on 09 July 2012 - 03:16 PM, said:

View Postkenyabrunson, on 09 July 2012 - 03:02 PM, said:

Apple won't win the 7inch tablet race unless they make the price in the $200 range. No one wants to spend $400-$600 bucks on a 7inch tablet.

no one is going to win the 7 inch tablet race at $200


My theory is, they'll sell it for $300, and still manage a $150 margin, which is about the same as that of the $400 iPad 2 (http://www.techspot....tes-reveal.html), and also makes for a clean sequence of iPad prices in $100 increments. It won't compete on price with the Fire and Nexus 7, but the lure of an app store full of proper tablet apps will draw people away from the cheaper competition. It may not destroy the competition outright, but it will cripple their chances of building an ecosystem.

At 7 inches you have the same issue (except in reverse) of stretching a 3.5 inch phone app to a 10 inch tablet size, so do you stretch the phone size to 7, shrink the 10 or make developers rework the layout in order to get a app store full of mini tablet apps?
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Posted 10 July 2012 - 09:16 AM

Assuming a retina display Apple doesn't need to match the pricing of the Nexus 7 or Nook. Apple can easily add $50-$75 compared to the Nexus and sell double what Google will.
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Posted 10 July 2012 - 10:12 AM

Easy, two models--one at $200 or $250 and the other at $250 or $300, differentiated by the amount of memory. Apple will dominate, almost assuredly.
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Posted 10 July 2012 - 01:39 PM

View PostLordInsidious, on 10 July 2012 - 07:46 AM, said:

At 7 inches you have the same issue (except in reverse) of stretching a 3.5 inch phone app to a 10 inch tablet size, so do you stretch the phone size to 7, shrink the 10 or make developers rework the layout in order to get a app store full of mini tablet apps?


There's been a lot of speculation already about how this would work. The consensus seems to be that they can shrink 1024x768 tablet apps down without a major usability hit, and without much more work from developers, if any. The screen elements (icons and such) are bigger on the current iPad than on the iPhone, so they'd shrink down to iPhone size while retaining the iPad optimizations.

http://castirony.com...-for-a-7-8-ipad
http://daringfirebal...ipad_mini_thing

Keep in mind that it's rumored to be a 7.8-inch 4:3 tablet, not a 7-inch 16:10 tablet, which would make a 40 percent difference in screen size.
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Posted 10 July 2012 - 03:29 PM

View PostJaredNewman, on 10 July 2012 - 01:39 PM, said:

View PostLordInsidious, on 10 July 2012 - 07:46 AM, said:

At 7 inches you have the same issue (except in reverse) of stretching a 3.5 inch phone app to a 10 inch tablet size, so do you stretch the phone size to 7, shrink the 10 or make developers rework the layout in order to get a app store full of mini tablet apps?


There's been a lot of speculation already about how this would work. The consensus seems to be that they can shrink 1024x768 tablet apps down without a major usability hit, and without much more work from developers, if any. The screen elements (icons and such) are bigger on the current iPad than on the iPhone, so they'd shrink down to iPhone size while retaining the iPad optimizations.

http://castirony.com...-for-a-7-8-ipad
http://daringfirebal...ipad_mini_thing

Keep in mind that it's rumored to be a 7.8-inch 4:3 tablet, not a 7-inch 16:10 tablet, which would make a 40 percent difference in screen size.

Interesting ideas, thanks.
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  Posted 16 July 2012 - 07:26 PM

I agree! Blackberry playbook is a great 7" tablet. And for 200.00, you cant lose.
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