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"Apple is the most vertically integrated company in the world." I struggle to see how that statement could be true for a company that outsources all of its manufacturing.
Just because they don't own the tools doesn't mean that they aren't telling people exactly how to use them.
"Apple is the most vertically integrated company in the world." I struggle to see how that statement could be true for a company that outsources all of its manufacturing.
Apple 'outsources' all of its marketing to TBWA\Chiat\Day but that doesn't affect the quality of the output, or their control over what gets produced. Just because they don't own the tools doesn't mean that they aren't telling people exactly how to use them.
The Notion Ink Adam is cheaper... Notion Ink Adam with LCD & WiFi (no 3G) - $375 USD Notion Ink Adam with LCD, WiFi & 3G - $425 USD Notion Ink Adam with Pixel Qi display & WiFi (no 3G) - $499USD Notion Ink Adam with Pixel Qi display, WiFi & 3G - $549 USD
> "Designing in-house means Apple doesn’t have to pay licensing fees to third parties to use their intellectual property. For instance, the A4 chip" Isn't the A4 an ARM + PowerVR and doesn't Apple pay design licenses on both those?
"Apple is the most vertically integrated company in the world." I struggle to see how that statement could be true for a company that outsources all of its manufacturing.
Architecturally wise they are vertically integreated with all their in house hardware and software but I dont think anyone can argue that their manufacturing practices dont help that statement.
I feel a lot of other companies are riding the tablet wave. Why would motorola underprice the Xoom when possibly they could make a killing on selling the next "iPad" killer. If its true that Apple is sitting on a pretty price margin on the iPad, then the Xoom, I feel, wouldent be to far off. If they had to they could lower the price to gain momentum but so far this is Motorolas first good tablet release and I dont th…
I feel a lot of other companies are riding the tablet wave. Why would motorola underprice the Xoom when possibly they could make a killing on selling the next "iPad" killer. If its true that Apple is sitting on a pretty price margin on the iPad, then the Xoom, I feel, wouldent be to far off. If they had to they could lower the price to gain momentum but so far this is Motorolas first good tablet release and I dont th…
Apple locked down the 10" screens lcd market, why do you think samsung went with a 7"?
One factor that the author doesn't mention is Apple's success at lining up deals with component manufacturers. A couple years ago (before anyone had heard of the iPad) they locked in great prices on flash memory and LCD displays. They could do that because they were about to invent a huge market, and they knew it. Anyone trying to get into the tablet business in 2010 had to pay much, much more. Steve Jobs and Johnny…
A hundred upvotes, really. Tim Cook turned Apple from a sloppy, cluttered mess to a perfectly tuned and calibrated machine. He designs business processes like Ive designs hardware enclosures. He's still at it, too, telling investors during the last earnings call that Apple once again snapped up a boatload of supply on an unnamed type of component . I bet he'd be amazing at Starcraft, once he learned the ropes.
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That's still $100 more expensive than the cheapest WiFi iPad and only $29 cheaper than the cheapest WiFi + 3G iPad.
and it's competing with a product announced over a year ago, not the next generation of iPad due any day now.
And by the way there are perfectly good android tablets already available for around half the price of the cheapest ipad. You can already run android 3.0 on a $249 nook color.
The main shock people had about the ipad was how expensive it was priced ($500-$750). They weren't 'surprised' at how low it was priced. And to Apple's credit, we now know that even at that price it would sell well, and also we know that this price is actually not so unreasonable or inflated as we thought, because other major manufacturers making comparable quality tablet products are also in that price range (except for the nook color, notion ink adam, archos 101 and 70, or several no-name tablets).
Also, the xoom is $600 compared to the old ipad's price of $500. If you want to compare the $800 xoom with 3g (and 4g), compare it with the $750 ipad with 3g. So the prices are not so different.