Thread: iPad-Mini Rumor
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2012-05-05, 11:10

$299 is about as low as I can see an iPad getting, ever (excluding the possibility of carrier subsidies). We're used to technology constantly dropping price, but at some point we're going to run into inflation, the same way the MSRP of the same model of a car goes up a few hundred dollars each year.

The iPad's $499 strikes me as equivalent to the iPhone's $199, the iPad's $399 is the $99 iPhone, and the two year old iPad at $299 equivalent to the free iPhone 3GS. I see this as the price distribution starting in 2013, and for several years after. At some point, though, the pricing will slowly start to creep up (as the Macs already have--there's no $799 iMac or $499 Mac mini).