Tablet Makers Try To Beat iPad's $500 Pricetag

The iPad has sold extremely well at a starting price of $500 but "that kind of pricing doesn't work for many tablet vendors," says a story at CNET. And recent price drops reflect this. It's been a rough year for tablet makers, and it's not even Black Friday yet.

Comments

Apple has peaked - it's obvious

[Anonymous Coward]

How can anyone not do well when their product has pretty much been the only one around so far? Now they just seriously fumbled the iPhone ball by releasing a half-assed update rather than the iPhone 5 their fanbois had been pretty much promised, even the most gullible of them will be questioning their loyalty in the face of a full 12 months wait for the next one - hell their "new" one is getting spanked all over the place in terms of network speed, horsepower, screen size etc and its not even out the door yet. When they do get round to it, again the competition will be 12 months ahead and so it continues....

Jobs dead, iPhone screwed up and now real head on competition from tablets on their own turf. No wonder they got so ludicrously litigous recently with the rounded corners fiasco and the bullying of German courts to ban the competition - sounds like someone there saw all this coming.

It was fun while it lasted, but now it really is time to think differently.

Re:Amazon did it

[TheGratefulNet]

really? you think there's one business out there that does NOT play with their numbers?

you are young and idealistic. how cute!