Nexus 10 vs iPad4 vs Surface RT (battle of the tablets!)

[smbu2000]

Lafiel said:

smbu2000 said:

Well I was checking out the prices for the Nexus 10 here in Japan and it's 36,800 yen (16gb) or 44,800 yen (32gb) a difference of 8,000 yen between the two. (~$100 USD), which is the price difference Apple uses as well when adding storage. (Base 16gb ipad retina is 42,800 yen)

What's strange is that for the Nexus 7, Google charges either 19,800 yen (16gb) or 24,800 yen (32gb) a difference of 5,000 yen for the storage upgrade. (~$62 USD) These prices are from the Google Play Store. I wonder why they charge more to upgrade the storage space on the Nexus 10 compared to the Nexus 7? The N7 came out first as well.

The limited storage is just a real turn off. I know some people say "I can just stream what I need.", but streaming uses up your data as well as your battery. (cellular antennas use more power compared to wifi or having the data locally

The 16GB model in both cases probably is sold at a loss while the 32GB one is sold with a profit and they expect to come out at more or less +/- 0 when taking both models into the equation. And here is the reason why they don't add an SD card slot as it means more people will buy the lower end model, so they would need to make that model more expensive.

I guess, but that is still quite a discrepancy for adding the same "extra 16gb" of storage to a device. The lower cost for storage on the N7 puts the 32gb version at the same price as the new 32gb ipod touch and still somewhat under the price for the 16gb ipad mini (28,800 yen). The higher cost for storage actually puts the 32gb N10 above the price for the baseline 16gb ipad retina model, (44,800 yen vs. 42,800 yen) unlike in the US which has them at the same price.)