Thread: Have Amazon priced other Android manufacturers out of the tablet market?
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Old 09-08-2012, 02:29 PM   #6
Edward M. Grant
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
Worse, taking Android tablets into premium territory puts them squarely against Apple, Microsoft, and those same vendors' Windows tablets.
Surely you mean taking -- currently non-existent -- Windows tablets into premium territory puts them squarely against Apple and Android? There are a number of of Android tablets in a similar price range to iPads; I'm pretty happy with my 'premium' Transformer and have no desire to swap it for an iPad, Kindle Fire, cheap Chinese tablet or Windows.

Windows' selling point has always been that it's cheap, so trying to compete with Apple would seem brave. But Android can be cheaper, so it will probably continue to own the low end of the market unless Microsoft start paying tablet manufacturers to ship Windows versions at less than cost price.
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