Like a moth to a sizzling pattern,
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The firm will unveil a 10-inch touch-screen tablet computer someday this year, say analysts. Not merely does Apple wish to showcase its layout prowess,
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No query, the tablet will dazzle Apple supporters who normally never feel two times about spending upwards of $2,000 for the latest, greatest Mac. But past the core fan base,
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(My colleague James Rogers writes about how Apple could have decent margins on Netbooks.)
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Gateway, Lenovo all make tablet notebooks for around $1,400, and none score well on any reputation indexes.
There's a a lot more eye-opening index that Apple investors need to possibly heed. Nine from the ten bestselling computer systems at Amazon as of nowadays had been netbooks. And just one marketed for over $400. In contrast, the typical price of an Apple pc is $1,400, or the equivalent of three-and-a-half netbooks.
Apple just isn't totally oblivious to the cheapness behind the netbook's reputation; it is just the organization has usually believed that design and style trumps price tag. The iPod, for example, crushed the less expensive competition in music players.
Last yr, effectively just before netbooks grew to become the apparent buyer hit,
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