I remember hearing about this same sort of ratio regarding the ipod. There are some R&D and advertising expenses of course, but this still proves that the prices could come way down if Apple saw fit (as they did with their notebook line a couple of years ago).
--chris On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Ben Eisenbraun <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:21:17PM -0500, Mark J Dulcey wrote: > > On 2/17/2011 10:03 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > > > > And yet, nobody else seems to have a truly competitive tablet for > > > less than the iPad... > > > > Of course they don't. Apple can price the iPad at an unprofitable level, > > I suppose they could do that. > > But they don't. > > http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/whats-an-ipad-cost-to-build/ > > -ben > > -- > the computer is a moron. <peter drucker> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
