“Popping up on websites here, there and everywhere with prices between £600 and £700 a few weeks ago, the Galaxy Tab has seen Amazon and Dixons cut their prices for a standalone 16GB model to £469 with free delivery,” Coppinger reports.
Coppinger reports, “Samsung has yet to release official sales figures for the tablet, but has previously said that it expects to ship a million units by the end of 2010. But with the public relations disaster that is the Toshiba Folio 100, the question that comes to mind is, are the tablets really going to be the runaway sales successes that everyone was expecting?”
MacDailyNews Take: Depend on the tablet, Rob. Depends on the tablet.
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MacDailyNews Take: The iPad incorporates everything we’ve learned about building high value products from iPhone, iPods, and Macs. We create our own A4 chip, our own software, our own battery chemistry, our own enclosure, our own everything. And this results in an incredible product at a great price… We think the current crop of 7-inch tablets are going to be DOA. Dead On Arrival. Their manufacturers will learn the painful lesson that their tablets are too small and increase the size next year, thereby abandoning both customers and developers who jumped on the 7-inch bandwagon with an orphaned product.”
Sounds like lots of fun ahead. – Apple CEO Steve Jobs, October 18, 2010
And so the fun begins.
Is it possible that we are at the beginning of an era of ‘value conscious’ technology consumer?
And not ‘price conscious’ mentality of the 90s and 00s.
We can only hope, cause the success of iPods, iPhones, iPads and the resurgence of Macs is very good indicator.
That fact that Samsung’s 7 inch tab has to be sold with a 2 year contract to compete in price with Apple’s 10 inch iPad, without a contract, says it all
The only reason iPad sales are slowing, is because people like myself are waiting for iPad 2.
@dpr1961
iPad sales aren’t slowing at all and enterprise is buying them thousands at a time…
I bought the 3G/Wi-fi iPad, and in time I will own the 2nd-gen when it hits the market.
In the mean time, all you can do is talk about it.
In a few days we’ll all be immersed in OS 42 and all of its goodness, so I’m content to wait. WTF, it’s only money.
@DPR
I am with you to the tune of about 15 iPads.
I’m really, really hoping that we’re coming to the end of the era of “price-conscious”, commodity-driven consumerism based on exploiting Asian labor. Companies like Samsung and LG, with their barracks-like corporate villages of 1000s of workers, need to radically rethink the way they do things, and hopefully American consumers will be more critical about naively lapping up whatever useless trinkets these companies throw at them.
If this happens we’ll have Apple to–in large part–thank for it.
Wow a price cut already. The other tablet producers must be going crazy. Even the Apple haters must not be running to these. This will cut into the netbook market now that they are in a race to bottom price strategy.
iPad sales overseas is going strong!!! Look at Japan, Korea and even the Philippines buying up at higher prices than in the USA!
The 1st quarterly report in January will show that international sales will still be over 50% of total revenue.
My entire city council – going with iPad
http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-aurora-ipad-for-icouncil-111610,0,947497.story
Actually what Apple should do is lower the price of the iPad version 1 to about 300 dollars after version 2 comes out. Hopefully that will seriously reduce most of the threat of cheapo knockoffs. (Although I think the current price is a fantastic bargain.)
I don’t know if the cams and video chats will be that necessary in the business market. I know for my business needs I need the simplest version.
However, for personal use I am waiting for v2 for gifts to my family.
@DPR
Agreed! mark me down for 4.
waiting for a 2 for 1 deal.
I personally like samsung, and even hyundai. It appears, asian companies start off ‘price conscious’ but gradually move away from it to sell premium products. Samsung and Hyundai both started as craptastic companies, but reinvested into upgrading themselves. This will be the main reason america can no longer compete. Asia can make incredibly cheapo products for cheapies, but way better products for discriminating consumers also – and they can pump them out quick too. It’s ironic that our country full of cheapo hicks – is what’s building up china so quickly.
am I wrong?
I’m waiting for Version 2 as well. I want that front facing camera. Thats the deal breaker for me and has been since Steve first announced the product. Everything else it already does. I have the iPhone 4 and its awesome, and a BIG version of that would be great.
What makes me sad is that it prolly wont be out until April of 2011, 6 long months.
@Renaldo: Really? Was your post just a little humorous sarcasm? I must assume so because Apple uses overseas Asian labor just as they all do. Apples products are not cheap trinkets to be sure, and they tend to be very well made, but my iPad clearly says “assembled in China” on the back of it. Last time I checked China was a part of Asia.
Wow man. Zune déja vu.
Everyone trying rush to the market with some sort of iPhone, iPad, and iPod “killer” products. Most of them either have failed already, or are failing.
Most potential competitors don’t understand is that Apple is not defined by any one of its products. It is the whole Apple’s ecosystem what make it so attractive to users, every Apple product just works so well together.
@Joe
Yeah, version 2.
I’m thinking of buying a car, and I will do so as soon as they come out with the models that fly too… and when they do, I may want to wait for version 2, with front facing rocket boosters, and then, blah, blah, blah.
The fact is that you either adopt technology early and get much more out of it than if you hook on later down the line. Or then you are one of the sorry old f…s who always wait for the next version (with usb and the floppy drive) and end up going only to places where everyone else have already been.
What’s keeping you from buying v2 when that comes out if you were to buy v1 now? Money? If you were to invest in cutting edge tech tools, I think you may find that it more than pays for itself. Or are you just cheap???
People saying they’re waiting for v(current + 1) of any Apple product crack me up. I have actually only expended my own money for one iPhone – the original back in 2007. I have upgraded to every new model since, by selling my current product on Craigs List for more money than it originally cost.
I’m looking forward to selling my iPad v1 right before iPad v2 is released, then upgrading to v2. And so my little Apple ecosystem keeps spinning.
Already!?!
@Renaldo
Welcome to Foxconn City:
Hon Hai’s first manufacturing plant in the People’s Republic of China opened in Shenzhen in 1988. Now the company’s largest operation, 300,000 to 450,000 workers are employed at the Longhua Science & Technology Park, a cramped, walled campus sometimes referred to as “Foxconn City” or “iPod City”. Covering about 1.16 square miles (3 square km), it includes 15 factories, worker dormitories, a fire brigade, as well as a downtown complete with a grocery store, bank, restaurants, bookstore and hospital. Workers live, work and eat inside the complex, which broadcasts its own television network, Foxconn TV.
Let us take a moment of silence
to appreciate that fact that we are NOT at the mercy of crapware perpetrators like Samsung, Toshiba, Microsoft, ad nauseam. There are incredibly superior alternatives. May it ever be so…
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[shhh!]
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Amen
@Rockfixer.
Gotta disagree with you there, buddy. I take your point — you gotta pull the trigger at some point. Tech will keep marching ahead.
Still, I don’t upgrade my tech that often and even with Apple you often see big jumps between first and second generation. For example, I was very glad I waited for the second gen iPod touch, which I still use and intend to use until it dies. The second gen ditched the ugly grey border, included a volume rocker, greater storage for a lower price, etc.
I’m not sure I need an iPad, but I’m waiting to check out the iPad 2; we’ll very likely see thinner, lighter, greater capacity, etc. So, yes, you gotta jump in at some point, but that leap from first to second gen is often quite significant.
Obviously for someone who upgrades often the above argument doesn’t hold, but for someone who likes to hold onto their purchase for a good long time, I think it’s the way to go.
Even I am wondering about the same thing.. The only reason I can think of is that the sales of that phone aren’t doing so well..Or may be there are some serious issues with that phone.
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