Apple Announces iPad
subsidy, what subsity
Do you honestly think that this device costs more then 130 bucks to make more then the iphone? Absolutely no way.
Sign a 2 year contract with AT&T and the price drops to 299.
Subsidy makes sense.
if a tiny 32gb iphone is 699 and the giant 32gb ipad is only 30 dollars more you dont find that odd? you dont think possibly the outright prices of phones are inflated to convince consumers to sign contracts?
seriously if they can sell this device unlocked and with no contract for this price and make money at the point of sale then the phone prices are very much inflated
Retail prices for smartphones are definetly inflated.
how can anyone in this industry look a customer in the face and say the phones actually cost us that much we are giving you a discount for signing a contract
Also this is not a phone, rather it is a web surfing devise. It does not have a camera, it does not have GPS, it has a tiny amount of memory for a devise of its size. It cannot multi task, and does not run Mac OSx so it is not a real computer.
There is nothing smart about this devise, so please do not compareit to a smart phone when talking about the cost, because my Droid does so much more.
2) Every single application demoed today was more powerful than anything your Droid can run. Especially the web browser.
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