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12-19-2012, 09:18 AM | #32 |
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Cheap wasn't mean to have a negative tone, although I can see that sometimes it can be taken that way.
I would say that compared to the competition, both the Nexus 4 and 7 are cheap, but they both seem like very good devices. (For the price, I'd say the 7 was a great device) Last edited by murraypaul; 12-19-2012 at 09:38 AM. |
12-19-2012, 09:29 AM | #33 |
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Aging baby boomers are an obvious growing market - create a smart phone for the non-tech savvy population - like the Fire put an Amazon "skin" on an Android tablet so folks can use it without knowing anything about Android - put an Amazon "skin" on a smart phone.
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Going with the fire theme, they should call it the Amazon Zippo.
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12-19-2012, 09:44 AM | #35 |
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12-19-2012, 07:16 PM | #38 |
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Google is breaking even from selling Nexus 4 (un-locked) at $299 and $349. The device has top of the line specs (except the LTE part).
T-Mobile is selling the same device (at profits) for $499 (for the 16GB). This is $150 over what Google is selling. T-Mobile: $150 profits Google: very low margin (break-even). Amazon will follow the Google model. Come to think of it, the Nexus 7 at $199 and $249 is also at very low margin too. Maybe the same with the Nexus 10 at $399. |
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12-20-2012, 04:10 AM | #41 |
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Well when they introduced the iPad, they had essentially 100% of the market. Share can only go down from there
There will obviously be a knock-on effect, but the immediate conflict will be between Amazon and Google rather than Amazon and Apple. The Nexus 4 already offers a high quality phone for much lower prices. In the same way that the Nexus 7 was primarily designed to compete with the 'impure' Android devices from Amazon and B&N, rather than the iPad. |
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How about - the Fire Fone?
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Then the mini, like most Apple products, is stuck in it's own little world.
And the mini's not a phone, so really has nothing to say on the matter. Also the mini is priced way above where Google and Amazon prices their stuff. The Google and Amazon offerings will likely be phones that are priced similarly, running more or less the same operating system and the same apps, and targeted at the same market segment. So the mini is entitled to it's opinion, but it's wrong. Even if it were the iPhone 5 speaking, rather than the iPad mini, it would still be wrong, for all the same reasons (except the "not a phone" one). |
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