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The iPad/iPhone is frankly too expensive in the Indian market. The market is huge though. Their price point in India should be much lower than the iPad's and th
by blizkreeg 17y ago
The iPad/iPhone is frankly too expensive in the Indian market. The market is huge though. Their price point in India should be much lower than the iPad's and that should give them an advantage.
Internationally, that's a different story altogether.
- eli_s 17y agoI don't see how their price point can be lower since they are using commodity components. Their contribution is the software+hardware combo. In fact they will probably never come even close to competing on price. Hardware is a tricky game and most is sold at below production cost e.g. consoles and also I imagine the iPod. This loss is recouped through software licensing or in Apple's case the app store. This probably wont be an option for these guys since they are building on an open platform.
- eavc 17y agoBut they do gain a substantial savings for not having to incur any licensing or development costs on the OS.
- infinite8s 17y agoYes, but if they are selling the hardware pretty close to cost they will not make much money.