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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
So first of all, it's 98% US. Then:
They want an ipad at half the price. Or if you think of it in another way, they expect the ipad to be priced at twice what it's worth, and the rest is for the Apple brand.
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Apple have priced the iPad very differently to how they price their computers. That is, they have not used off the shelf components and charged 40% more than a comparable product using the same parts. So Android tablet manufacturers do not have the price advantage that PC makers have.
Apple are shifting away from being a hardware manufacturer to being a content providing middle-man. Steve Jobs is smart enough to know that the average iPad owner is going to buy a lot of stuff from iTunes to go with their iPad, and he's made sure that all of that content has to go through Apple and have 30% extracted.