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Originally Posted by kjk
I guess selling a $499 tablet for $99 is one way to take the lead.
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That was a very silly article. Suppose they got a 10% market share selling at $99, and losing (say) $150 on each tablet. Apple's selling a million a week at present, so they'd need to be selling at least 100,000 per week to take a 10% share. That's a weekly loss of $15 million, or near $800 million per year.
I suppose if that doubled the value of the PC division from $8 billion to $16 billion, it'd be well worth it.
But I can't quite see big investors being fooled like that.