“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.
