30% Apple

[Chris O'Connell]

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 <bene-Gk2boCrsRs1AfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.org> 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
>
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