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To: zax who wrote (143532)	10/25/2012 6:14:57 PM
From: Road Walker	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Anyone who is aware of the $199 Nexus would not buy the $329 iPad. Wanna bet on unit volume?

To: zax who wrote (143532)	10/25/2012 6:35:59 PM
From: Cogito	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Anyone who is aware of the $199 Nexus would not buy the $329 iPad. Zax. That's a ridiculous thing to say. It's similar to statements about how nobody would ever buy an iPhone 4S when they have the option to get the Samsung Galaxy III. Clearly, tens of millions of people do buy Apple products. Do you suppose that none of them are aware of what the competition offers? I'd say that most of them are. Apple has sold 100 million iPads in two and a half years. It's the fastest selling electronic consumer product in history. This, despite the fact that the Fire has been available for $199, and the Nexus Seven, too. People have been willing to pony up a minimum of 300 clams more for the Apple product. I'm sure you did extensive market research in your head before making that statement, but I'm sure that Apple's actual real-world sales numbers will prove you wrong. I suppose nobody who is aware of the Surface will buy a 4th-gen iPad, either. Piffle!

To: zax who wrote (143532)	10/25/2012 8:52:00 PM
From: HerbVic	5 Recommendations Respond to of 213177

>> At least for this quarter, I expect it to sell like hotcakes Anyone who is aware of the $199 Nexus would not buy the $329 iPad. Well, being aware of something doesn't translate automatically into sales. I agree that people will buy the Nexus. I also propose that people will buy the iPad and iPad mini, just different people, not the same ones. You would be banking on general consumer ignorance. And Google is both marketing the hell out of the Nexus; and has the placement to do it. I don't think so. One could say that, but one could also say that Google is banking on consumer ignorance to sell their Nexus device, since owning a Nexus is nothing like owning an iPad, and the uninitiated public perception is that they are all iPads of a sort with different brand names. I simply do not see people buying both an iPad Mini and iPad in any volume. Its one or the other. I don't see anything to keep that from happening, but still, that is not what I said. I merely stated that X number of people coming to look at the iPad mini will buy an iPad [instead]. I thought the word "instead" was implied. Sorry. Picture this: Joe Blow's wife drags him into the Apple Store in the mall to see the iPad mini for whatever reason. The guy in the blue shirt does a good demonstration for them, and they decide the bigger screen is better. BAM! An iPad sold instead of an iPad mini, off of the publicity surrounding the mini. There is nothing the iPad mini can do except divide sales. Oh please! You know better than that. It can divide an infinite number of numbers with its calculator. But seriously, think about it. If the original iPad had only come in one flavor, instead of 6, would Apple have only sold 1/6 as many? ... Of course not. But they would have sold a lot less! The point is, each competing line within the same product added to the whole to produce greater sales volume; not to divide the pie. The only thing for Apple to do is drop the price. And that will hit margins, and further cannibalize the iPad Maxi. Apple will do exactly as it has done many times before, and that is grow and prosper even as the nanny no-nos are still wagging their fingers of doom. Lets not even talk about the $299 Kindle Fire HD 8.9”... As you wish. Herb

To: zax who wrote (143532)	10/25/2012 9:48:59 PM
From: Pete Mason	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

>> Anyone who is aware of the $199 Nexus would not buy the $329 iPad. << I sense an engineer at work here :-D Just for grins, can you think of any product category, anywhere, under any circumstances, where everyone does not automatically choose the cheapest product? Does that ever happen? Surely, whether it be cars, clothes, jewelry, accessories, stereo equipment, art, houses, watches, vacations, shrubs, computers, obviously the cheapest (but equal or better in specs!!) always wins, right? -- Pete