Re: Pricing
"You make it sound like it wont be forever. Dream on..."
Oh, I'm sure it won't, based on current trends, I expect it will drop to around 18% and then rise to 22%.
Retailer leaks iPad Mini price list starting at £200
Apple's new iPad Mini will sell for £200, if screenshots on a German site are to be believed. Mobilegeek.de is showing images of an inventory spreadsheet from the German gadget store Media Markt, which shows various models of iPad Minis listed alongside their prices. The cheapest iPad Mini, an 8GB Wi-Fi-only device, is listed …
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Monday 15th October 2012 14:01 GMT Big_Ted
PMSL......
£200 for an iPad Mini ????
No chance, at that price its so much cheaper than the "new" ipad that a lorge number will go for it as the second/third one in the house as well as the only tablet they have.
Imagine it, £329 for one that's only real difference for you average punter is that its a bit bigger and more than 50% more expensive.......
Apple are too smart to do that, more likely is a £259 price to match the price of a refurb ipad2 from their store.....
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Monday 15th October 2012 22:41 GMT Mark .
Re: All these iPads
Last time I looked, Apple were still using this joke brand name in 2012. Though I can understand the confusion - there was so much hype and vaporware, islate, ipad etc, and now the same over the "mini", it's hard to remember which is the real products, and which are vaporware.
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Tuesday 16th October 2012 08:20 GMT NightFox
Re: All these iPads
I think you're confusing vaporware with rumours. Considering Apple is a company that makes such a big issue of not announcing products until it's got millions of them stockpiled ready to launch within a couple of weeks of the announcement, I think you mean the wild speculation that frenzied fanbois come up with whenever a blurry photo appears from one of Apple's component suppliers. I certainly can't think of any devices that Apple have announced that have failed to materialise.
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Monday 15th October 2012 15:42 GMT toadwarrior
£40 more isn't bad at all for something that is guaranteed to work. The nexus has had so many complaints about stuff falling apart and the screen losing touch ability on areas that even if they fixed those issues, I'd really be hessitant to buy one. Especially given my experience with an android phone too.
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Monday 15th October 2012 16:13 GMT Aramando
Don't believe the (negative) hype!
I did have to send back my first Nexus 7 due to a loose screen (I bought it quite early on, by the way), but the replacement is bulletproof, feels really nice in the hand, and works like a charm. I *love* it, it's easily the best £160 I've spent.
If the iPad Mini is £160 (for 8GB) I'd be annoyed I didn't get one of those instead, but even if it's £200 (which will never happen!) I'll remain very happy with my purchase.
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Monday 15th October 2012 16:55 GMT bluest.one
>£40 more isn't bad at all for something that is guaranteed to work. The nexus has had so many complaints about stuff falling apart...
Nothing Apple makes has manufacturing defects. Is that your point?
Please stay on hold, someone from the internet will be along shortly to list all the ways you are wrong. Refuting your fanoboyism is important to us.
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Monday 15th October 2012 18:02 GMT Keep Refrigerated
Just so happens...
I'm in the market for a new smaller tablet. A couple of years ago I was warming up to Apple and would have been ready to try out a small form factor iPad. Not now, not after all their vindictive patent malarky. I'm looking at a Galaxy Tab 2 7", would have gone for a Nexus 7 but discovered no SD slot. Still if the rumours about a 32gb Nexus turn out to be true then GoogleAsus will shut up and take my money.
Apple: too little innovation, too much litigation, too late.
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Tuesday 16th October 2012 08:22 GMT fiatlux
A 8GB Cellular Mini iPad would be a nice, affordable compromise between the iPad 3G/4G and the iPhone.
I loved the BlackBerry PlayBook form factor but the lack of cellular connectivity defeated a bit the purpose of the small size. There is now a PlayBook 4G but its battery life and wireless sensitivity do not seem great. If I had not an iPad 3G already, I'd be very tempted by this new model.
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Tuesday 16th October 2012 12:16 GMT Green Nigel
Apples & Pears
The lack of sd slot on any tablet, is a deal breaker for me, why do I not want to use the cloud or even a local one to stream ect? No thanks, forced on to their retail outlets or forever shuffling, squashing in files to & from, is just a clunky time wasting solution, especialy if you want to do anything away from an internet connection. This becomes even more cronic & unworkable with just the 8g (4g usable) to play with.
Is this why the 32g Nexus is set now to release & replace the 16g, (rumoured for the same price of £200? & the 16g to replace the pointless 8g!)
An 8g iPad mini @ £200, (£250 more likely + £20 for the Lightning adaptor), would be just a browser/reader at best, I can't see Apple releasing such a castrated beast.
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Tuesday 16th October 2012 14:28 GMT Mike Brown
This is obvious.....
They will drop the iPad 2, and possibly cut the price of the new iPad to the old iPad 2 price. Then the name of the new iPad makes sence; you have the iPad and the mini iPad. That also makes sure that the price points arent too far away from each other, that they canabilise each others sales.
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