Is there any evidence that samsung or motorola are trying to beat apple on price? The high end smartphones from both manufacturers seem to happily sit around the same price point as apple's phone.
Give it another six months or so and I'm sure you'll see some decidedly cheaper dual core 3.0 tablets from the 2nd tier oems like huwai as mentioned, archos, viewsonic, etc. Now, they want to compete on price. Whether tablets are commodity items or status symbols remains to be seen though. So far it seems mostly like the latter.
If history is anything to go by they will probably start out as status symbols, and become commodities as they spread into the market. Mobile phones are a good example.
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Is there any evidence that samsung or motorola are trying to beat apple on price? The high end smartphones from both manufacturers seem to happily sit around the same price point as apple's phone.
Give it another six months or so and I'm sure you'll see some decidedly cheaper dual core 3.0 tablets from the 2nd tier oems like huwai as mentioned, archos, viewsonic, etc. Now, they want to compete on price. Whether tablets are commodity items or status symbols remains to be seen though. So far it seems mostly like the latter.
If history is anything to go by they will probably start out as status symbols, and become commodities as they spread into the market. Mobile phones are a good example.