Global Economic Intersection
Advertisement
  • Home
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Politics
  • Investments
    • Invest in Amazon $250
  • Cryptocurrency
    • Best Bitcoin Accounts
    • Bitcoin Robot
      • Quantum AI
      • Bitcoin Era
      • Bitcoin Aussie System
      • Bitcoin Profit
      • Bitcoin Code
      • eKrona Cryptocurrency
      • Bitcoin Up
      • Bitcoin Prime
      • Yuan Pay Group
      • Immediate Profit
      • BitIQ
      • BitQH
      • Bitcoin Loophole
      • Crypto Boom
      • Bitcoin Treasure
      • Bitcoin Lucro
      • Bitcoin System
      • Oil Profit
      • The News Spy
      • Bitcoin Buyer
      • Bitcoin Inform
      • Immediate Edge
      • Bitcoin Evolution
      • Cryptohopper
      • Ethereum Trader
      • BitQL
      • Quantum Code
      • Bitcoin Revolution
      • British Trade Platform
      • British Bitcoin Profit
    • Bitcoin Reddit
    • Celebrities
      • Dr. Chris Brown Bitcoin
      • Teeka Tiwari Bitcoin
      • Russell Brand Bitcoin
      • Holly Willoughby Bitcoin
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Politics
  • Investments
    • Invest in Amazon $250
  • Cryptocurrency
    • Best Bitcoin Accounts
    • Bitcoin Robot
      • Quantum AI
      • Bitcoin Era
      • Bitcoin Aussie System
      • Bitcoin Profit
      • Bitcoin Code
      • eKrona Cryptocurrency
      • Bitcoin Up
      • Bitcoin Prime
      • Yuan Pay Group
      • Immediate Profit
      • BitIQ
      • BitQH
      • Bitcoin Loophole
      • Crypto Boom
      • Bitcoin Treasure
      • Bitcoin Lucro
      • Bitcoin System
      • Oil Profit
      • The News Spy
      • Bitcoin Buyer
      • Bitcoin Inform
      • Immediate Edge
      • Bitcoin Evolution
      • Cryptohopper
      • Ethereum Trader
      • BitQL
      • Quantum Code
      • Bitcoin Revolution
      • British Trade Platform
      • British Bitcoin Profit
    • Bitcoin Reddit
    • Celebrities
      • Dr. Chris Brown Bitcoin
      • Teeka Tiwari Bitcoin
      • Russell Brand Bitcoin
      • Holly Willoughby Bitcoin
No Result
View All Result
Global Economic Intersection
No Result
View All Result

iPad Mini: Will Crush Tablet Rivals

admin by admin
July 9, 2012
in Uncategorized
0
0
SHARES
10
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Money Morning Article of the Week

by David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning

If Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) does unveil an iPad Mini this fall – and fresh reports from both Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal indicate it will – the new device could help Apple lock up the tablet market for years.

The iPad Mini, as tech pundits are calling it, could debut as early as October. It’s thought to have a 7.85-inch screen, significantly smaller than the 9.7-inch display of the three iPad models released so far.

Such a product would compete directly with Amazon.com’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) Kindle Fire as well as the just-announced Nexus 7 from Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG). Both sport 7-inch screens and a $199 price tag aimed at buyers unwilling to pay $499 or more for a new iPad (or $399 for an older iPad 2).

It would be the competitors’ worst nightmare,” Shaw Wu, an analyst at Sterne Agee & Leach Inc., told Bloomberg. “The ball is in Apple’s court.”

There was no word on what the iPad Mini might cost, but in a note yesterday (Thursday) Topeka Capital analyst Brian White estimated a range of $250-$300.

“That would lure certain consumers away from these competitors with an overall better experience that includes a much more robust ecosystem,” White said.

Apple’s desire for generous profit margins will keep it from pricing an iPad Mini at $199. Both the Amazon Kindle and Nexus 7 lose money at $199.

With its impressive ecosystem, Apple can get away with charging more for a similar product. That ecosystem, built upon the iOS platform that runs all of the Cupertino, CA company’s mobile devices, includes the iCloud remote storage service as well as 225,000 apps designed just for the iPad.

“This isn’t like the old days, when it cost thousands of dollars more to buy an Apple product,” Wu said. “Fifty or a hundred bucks wouldn’t be enough to make someone switch.”

Fear the iPad Mini

An Apple entry into the 7-inch tablet market would rob rival tablet makers of an obvious competitive niche.

The smaller form factor and much lower price gave many hardware makers (most using Google’s free Android operating system) true differentiation from the previous iPad models.

The iPad Mini would extend Apple’s reach much deeper into the tablet market — and there’s little competitors can do about it. It’s hard to cut prices to gain market share when your margins are razor-thin or you’re selling at a loss.

Even without an iPad Mini, sales of non-Apple tablets have been weak. Only the Kindle Fire has had any real success. Now both the Nexus 7 and the iPad Mini are coming for the Fire.

According to research firm IDC, Apple’s tablet controlled 70% of the worldwide market in the first quarter of 2012. Analysts had been predicting that Apple would gradually lose market share over the next few years to tablets running Android and Microsoft Corp.’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) upcoming Windows 8 operating system.

But an iPad Mini would change that math. Such a product would appeal not only to cost-conscious customers in places like the United States, but also to millions of customers in less wealthy nations.

An Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Dominance Strategy

Note, too, the timing of the iPad Mini “leaks” to two major news sources.

Coming just days after the announcement of the Google Nexus 7 and a mere week after Microsoft unveiled its own Surface tablet, it certainly looks intentional.

Why? Putting out word that an iPad Mini is on the way will retard sales of other 7-inch tablets while consumers wait for the Apple device to arrive in the fall.

And it’s the second such incident in the past week.

Last week Bloomberg ran a story based on leaked information about an iTunes upgrade mere minutes after Google announced the Google Play store would add movies, TV shows and magazine subscriptions.

So much for Apple’s legendary secrecy.

A likely explanation is that the Apple of Tim Cook is determined not to repeat the mistakes of its past. The company clearly intends to do whatever it takes to prevent iOS from suffering the same fate the Mac did at the hands of Windows in the 1990s.

That includes everything from intentional leaks to the press, to patent wars, to wielding the market power of its vertically integrated ecosystem.

In a recent article for PCMag.com, Tim Bajarin, president of research firm Creative Strategies said many tablet makers fear Apple indeed has the power to “iPod” the tablet market – that is, dominate for years and years.

“The bottom line is that it’s really all about the platform. At the moment, I don’t see anybody creating a unified and powerful enough platform that comes close to what Apple already has in the market,” Bajarin wrote. “Unless something changes dramatically in the Android and Windows camps to bring about a seriously cohesive platform, Apple could potentially “iPod’ the tablet market given its initial iPad momentum and the mature platform.”



Related Articles at Money Morning

How Apple Investors Can Profit from the New iPad

5 Reasons the New Microsoft Surface Tablet is Not an iPad Killer

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Patent War with Samsung A Fight No One Wins

Apple Preps for Smaller Tablet

Is Apple “iPodding” the Tablet Market?

Judge halts U.S. sales of Samsung Galaxy Tab

Rumor: LCD suppliers for 7.85-inch iPad Mini certified with production ready to rampup


Previous Post

Insider Trading 06 July 2012: Insiders Selling 11.6 Times More Stock than Buying Stock

Next Post

MMT, The Euro and The Greatest Prediction of the Last 20 Years

Related Posts

Weaker Dollar Keeps Bitcoin Above $30K As Analysts Target 60% BTC Dominance
Economics

Weaker Dollar Keeps Bitcoin Above $30K As Analysts Target 60% BTC Dominance

by John Wanguba
May 20, 2022
Ethereum Developers Tip The Merge Might Happen In August ‘If All Goes As Planned’
Business

Ethereum Developers Tip The Merge Might Happen In August ‘If All Goes As Planned’

by John Wanguba
May 20, 2022
Commonwealth Bank Puts Crypto Trading Test On Ice As Regulators Hesitate
Business

Commonwealth Bank Puts Crypto Trading Test On Ice As Regulators Hesitate

by John Wanguba
May 20, 2022
Musk Hints He Could Reprice Twitter Deal As He Looks At Fake Accounts
Business

Musk Hints He Could Reprice Twitter Deal As He Looks At Fake Accounts

by John Wanguba
May 18, 2022
Madonna Joins Hands With Digital Artist “Beeple” To Launch New NFTs
Business

Madonna Joins Hands With Digital Artist “Beeple” To Launch New NFTs

by John Wanguba
May 18, 2022
Next Post

MMT, The Euro and The Greatest Prediction of the Last 20 Years

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Browse by Category

  • Business
  • Econ Intersect News
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Politics
  • Uncategorized

Browse by Tags

adoption altcoins banking Binance Bitcoin Bitcoin adoption Bitcoin market Bitcoin mining blockchain BTC business Coinbase crypto crypto adoption cryptocurrency crypto exchange crypto market crypto regulation decentralized finance DeFi digital assets Elon Musk ETH Ethereum Ethereum blockchain finance funding government investment market analysis Metaverse mining NFT NFT marketplace NFTs nonfungible tokens nonfungible tokens (NFTs) price analysis regulation Russia social media technology Tesla the US Twitter

Archives

  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • August 2010
  • August 2009

Categories

  • Business
  • Econ Intersect News
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Politics
  • Uncategorized
Global Economic Intersection

After nearly 11 years of 24/7/365 operation, Global Economic Intersection co-founders Steven Hansen and John Lounsbury are retiring. The new owner, a global media company in London, is in the process of completing the set-up of Global Economic Intersection files in their system and publishing platform. The official website ownership transfer took place on 24 August.

Categories

  • Business
  • Econ Intersect News
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Politics
  • Uncategorized

Recent Posts

  • Weaker Dollar Keeps Bitcoin Above $30K As Analysts Target 60% BTC Dominance
  • Ethereum Developers Tip The Merge Might Happen In August ‘If All Goes As Planned’
  • Commonwealth Bank Puts Crypto Trading Test On Ice As Regulators Hesitate

© Copyright 2021 EconIntersect - Economic news, analysis and opinion.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Contact Us
  • Bitcoin Robot
    • Bitcoin Profit
    • Bitcoin Code
    • Quantum AI
    • eKrona Cryptocurrency
    • Bitcoin Up
    • Bitcoin Prime
    • Yuan Pay Group
    • Immediate Profit
    • BitIQ
    • Bitcoin Loophole
    • Crypto Boom
    • Bitcoin Era
    • Bitcoin Treasure
    • Bitcoin Lucro
    • Bitcoin System
    • Oil Profit
    • The News Spy
    • British Bitcoin Profit
    • Bitcoin Trader
  • Bitcoin Reddit

© Copyright 2021 EconIntersect - Economic news, analysis and opinion.

en English
ar Arabicbg Bulgarianda Danishnl Dutchen Englishfi Finnishfr Frenchde Germanel Greekit Italianja Japaneselv Latvianno Norwegianpl Polishpt Portuguesero Romanianes Spanishsv Swedish