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To: Poser
iPad killer? Very unlikely. Unless it does something extraordinary than an iPad won't do, the Apple app store and the iTunes interface pretty much guarantee iPad will keep its dominance for the foreseeable future

Kinda like the iPhone kept its dominance over Android phones, yes?

16 posted on 06/07/2012 7:41:40 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

It’s about the price. If the new pads are at least $200 less than iPad, people will buy them. They won’t kill the iPad, just as Android phones haven’t killed the iPhone.

Apple competes in the premium price market. They have owned that market for quite a while. Just as Windows computers are about half the price of Mac computers, the Windows pads will probably be considerably cheaper than the iPads. If the Windows pads cost as much as iPads, they won’t sell.

The “commodity” computer/pad/phone market is a huge one that Apple doesn’t address. Unfortunately for Microsoft, they aren’t the only operating system for that market and Android got there first. I predict a slow but steady sales growth curve for the new Windows tablets with a price point slightly above Android tablets and significantly below Apple tablets.


35 posted on 06/07/2012 8:04:02 AM PDT by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: SmokingJoe
Kinda like the iPhone kept its dominance over Android phones, yes?

Yes, worldwide, the top three highest SELLING models of smartphones, the ones with the greatest demand before all other makes and models, are the Apple iPhone 4s, the Apple iPhone 4, and the three year old Apple iPhone 3Gs! They sell in far greater numbers than any single model of any other maker's smartphone. As of a report dated May 24, 2012, IDC says that just those three models of iPhones, represent more than 23% of all worldwide sales of smartphones, while the manufacturers of the over 1400 "me too" models of Android and Baidu (a Chinese non-compliant subset of Android) smartphones comprise 59%. In fact, in the US, when the iPhone sales are looked at among the longer term iPhone carriers such as AT&T and Verizon, the rates of customers choosing iPhone over Android are far higher, with AT&T reporting 69% and Verizon 51% of their customers in Q1 2012 choosing iPhones! This has resulted in the US iPhone market iPhone share reaching 43% and climbing.

49 posted on 06/07/2012 8:36:51 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: SmokingJoe
Kinda like the iPhone kept its dominance over Android phones, yes?

Exactly like that. Ford F 150 is the top selling pickup, but it does not outsell all the other pickups combined.

Apple is Doomed!

Again....

81 posted on 06/07/2012 10:38:06 AM PDT by itsahoot (I will not vote for Romney period.)
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