I agree. Asus and Acer seem to be the only respectable Android tablet manufacturers that get that pricing matters (quite a bit).
Yeah, people are willing to pay for quality, but given the huge ecosystem advantages the iPad has right now, your Android device would have to be many times superior to the iPad at the same price to think of competing. Meanwhile Android tablet makers are producing tablets that are often worse than the iPad 2 in ways that really matter (eg. even many of the high-end ones using crappy TN panels) and cost as much, if not more.
The HTC Jetstream is even worse, as the rumored price for that one is $700 ON CONTRACT (with AT&T), and $850 off contract. I don't even know how a decision to make that device at that pricepoint got made, but it is completely absurd.
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I agree. Asus and Acer seem to be the only respectable Android tablet manufacturers that get that pricing matters (quite a bit).
Yeah, people are willing to pay for quality, but given the huge ecosystem advantages the iPad has right now, your Android device would have to be many times superior to the iPad at the same price to think of competing. Meanwhile Android tablet makers are producing tablets that are often worse than the iPad 2 in ways that really matter (eg. even many of the high-end ones using crappy TN panels) and cost as much, if not more.
The HTC Jetstream is even worse, as the rumored price for that one is $700 ON CONTRACT (with AT&T), and $850 off contract. I don't even know how a decision to make that device at that pricepoint got made, but it is completely absurd.