This is funny. The Economist has published an interesting chart showing iPad’s retail price throughout the world. Just like the Big Mac index. With Apples.
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Apart from the hardware which of course cannot be really different, it does seem like Samsung enjoyed iOS’ iPad UI.
A lot since this is one of the biggest rip-off I’ve ever witnessed. Plus, they say it’s going to cost a little bit less than a thousand dollars. Yet, it would be grand if Samsung, when they’ll announce officially the price, make an Apple-like move, declaring it would cost a lot less. Though I do not expect this to happen.
I’m done people, I don’t want to hear about iPad rumors anymore. And since they’re a piece of Apple-related news, iPad rumors pollutes my feeds. We don’t need these rumors for a bunch of simple reasons.
First, Apple is evidently building a FaceTime iPad. This just makes sense. And if they don’t, well, they would contradict their own product expansion policy. This is too irrational, even for Steve.
Second, it would be illogical for Apple to build a 7-inch iPad. Though it may be possible. I’m not helping, right? Actually, we can’t know for sure. Steve Jobs was very clear when he announced the iPad, last January: it fits into a new family of devices. It is not a phone and it is not a computer (nor a netbook, to be precise).
People should have known there won’t be an iPhone nano when the iPhone 3G was released. Then, we knew the iPhone would evolve year after year, generation after generation as a unique device in Apple’s phones family.
Concerning the iPad, we will know if they will build a 7-inch iPad as soon as the second generation is announced. And there’s more: we will know more clearly what is their policy about the iPad family.
When people will start to think about the rumors instead of spreading them like peanut butter, I will feel better.
‘Apple has done an interesting job. They’ve sold more than I’d like them to sell.’
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO on the iPad and tablets, talking to Wall Street analysts.
