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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
This is what I love about Apple as a marketing machine. They have made the connection that an iPad is $499 ... and every "competitor" has to deliver value at that level or less.
But the $489 Kindle DX is the same size screen, in b&w, and e-ink to boot, for $10 less. Good grief! Buy an iPad, right?
Except ... the iPad is all about multimedia playback and "always connected". The reality: most consumers are opting for the 32 GB iPad with 3G built-in and requires (at least) $15/mth data plan to "make it go". That's $729 on day one and $180 in data charges in year one -- over $900.
So, yeah, I get it: the iPad delivers more ... $900 iPad vs $489 Kindle DX. Notice, please, it costs more.
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With the greatest respect, the fact that one could spend $900 in a year on a top-end iPad does not negate the point I made, which was that the $499 16GB WiFi iPad makes a damned good bookreader, and may well be considered by many potential customers as a more flexible alternative to the $489 DX, especially given the fact that one has access to exactly the same Amazon library as one does on the DX. $10 more for a device with 8x the storage capacity and a vastly greater range of capabilities is pretty tempting. I speak as both a Kindle and an iPad owner.