iPad 2

[Orjan]

You entirely miss the point. Netbooks outsell Macbooks. Cheap, entry level Windows laptops outsell Macbooks. The bottom fell out of the non-Mac laptop market because most people care more about price than build quality and design, and realize that the cheap goods are *sufficient* even if they're not as great as the iPad.

People buy far more cheap practical cars than expensive sports cars too...

You'll see the same with the iPad vs. exactly the type of cheap, crappy pads I pointed to, that are not in any way comparable to the iPad, but that are cheap enough that the vast majority who don't lightly spend 300 pounds+ for a gadget when many of them don't even have a desktop or laptop might consider buying them.

In fact, these pads will sell in vast quantities just because of people looking for bargains, that finds these pads in heaps at low price outlets as something they can buy on a whim. Some of these pads are in the price range where they might find their way into discount isles in super markets.

Apple will probably make several times as much profit per unit, because high margin products is where they shine, but there's just no way they'll not be massively beaten on number of units given the price level they've put themselves on.

Still, claiming the iPad isn´t the cheapest option and pointing to a noname slim-spec Android 2.x tablet is like comparing a Ferrari and a Yugo with the motivation that they are both cars.

Compare it to the Xoom instead. It has more or less the exact same specs as the iPad 2, and is more expensive across the board.

I don´t see how anyone can claim the iPad is expensive, really.

[Orjan]

Nothing like the PC world of the 80s or the Amiga, we didn't walk down the street or sit on a train with an A1000 & monitor under our arm or sitting on our lap to try and look cool... :lol:

That actually reminds me of an old TV commercial in the days of dial-up ISPs here in Sweden. I found it on the tube but its incomplete, the full commercial depicts 2 guys sitting in front of computers and tapping away when a sound distracts them and they both turn around, and theres a third guy in the door, with smoke and a bright light behind him, holding something under his arm. He walks in and sits down next to the two first guys and takes the object from under his arm, which turns out to be an A600, and places it on the desk. He then pushes a couple of buttons and one of the two other guys exclaims "How can he afford that?!?" in a fake german accent.
The slogan of the ISP was "Surf crazy-cheap"

So in the mind of that ISP, guys who were walking around with A600s were damn cool, as you can see in the commercial. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRISPqo-BSU&feature=related