“Apple’s iPad 2 hits U.S. retail Friday, and already many of the 100 competing tablets shown at CES this year are being terminated, withdrawn, shelved or otherwise dumped,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “That’s because competitors now know what I’ve been telling them: their expensive and less well-featured alternatives are DOA.”
“Among the many ways Apple has stitched-up its competitors, the company has held to a low $499 entry price,” Evans writes. “No one else can match this, in part through the cost of components and manufacturing.”
Evans writes, “Apple’s low prices leave little margins for struggling third-party vendors, and word out from Taiwan/China is that already 2-3 notebook brand vendors that had intended introducing tablets are now postponing the release, while they go for a redesign and try to cut manufacturing costs.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]