To: BWAC who wrote (62789 ) 3/15/2012 3:08:44 PM From: John Koligman Respond to It already has. Look at how many tech companies are throwing Android tablets out there. It's really about apps and the ecosystem, along with good design at a fair price. What if the tablet market turns out like the MP3 player market? Remember all the competitors that were going to go head to head with AAPL. After all these years AAPL still has the dominant market share. Microsoft put the Zune out with great fanfare and ended up with it's tail between it's legs. That said, Mr. Softie has some interesting stuff coming out with WIN8 and the METRO interface, but it's getting late.... I'm no Apple fanboy, do trade the stock, and am simply stating what I see going on with the company and tech in general... purchase 30.5 million iPhones over the next four years, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal . Today, a purchase of that size amounts to $20 billion US.online.wsj.com merger with Nextel in 2005 .the Journal reports Sprint CEO Dan Hesse saying . The carrier plans to subsidize each iPhone to about $500 in order to attract buyers and stay competitive with rivals. Currently on AT&T and Verizon an unsubsidized iPhone costs $650.
