| pezus said: I don't mind more competition for Apple. They need to have their ass handed to them from Android and Windows tablets, so they might stop with the ridiculous pricing (who am I kidding?). |
Apple won't change its pricing model. Just look at the iPad Mini that was intended to compete against the Nexus7. Its nearly twice as much with less features and lower quality screen, the most important piece of the tablet.
Android is now around 40-45% of the tablet market, almost entirely due to the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7. This year Nexus7 is upgrading its storage (doubling) at the same price points. Additionally a Nexus10 is launching and will also be priced very aggresively, I'm thinking it will start at $300 which is cheaper than the iPad Mini. It will again blow away the specs of the iPad3 just as Nexus7 does for iPad Mini.
Next year this time Android tablets, Fire, Nexus 7 and 10, Note 10.7, and a few of the others like Asus lineup will together have a greater than 50% share of the tablet market and iPad will no longer be the king.
However, if RT is good and has good word of mouth, this initially very good interest in the Surface tablets will result in a very good increase of MS marketshare. It should also have a direct positive effect on winphone.
It should be interesting to watch.
