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@kennyminot: maybe it's splitting hairs here but Amazon nor Barnes and Noble have announced tablets. Also neither company is producing tablets. The nook color neither of counts for activated android devices nor tablet sales.
A lot of folks forget we're in a recession, all areas of the tech industry are suffering from slow down in sales, well except amazon.
Prices really have not came down, it's just the products have changed and so has the price. The prior to the Asus Transformer all tablets where tied to a data plan. They had no entry model, only high end models and 3G plans. Folks however balked at buying these high end devices which resulted in poor sales.
The success of the transformer showed that consumers wanted the low end wifi models. So the trend now is to release the low end models first then followed up by the 3G high end models. However if you look at each prices of these high end models they are pretty much unchanged.
The devices that you mentioned dropped in prices because they where failed products out the door.
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