As said many moons ago, the iPad is too expensive. Its far from being a new gadget anymore, the geeks who are willing to pay the price already bought one. Its time for the prices to finally go down. I can buy a full fledged net book for $299. Kindle’s device is selling like hotcakes at $149. Apple thinks since they can combine the prices of these two devices together, to sell a touch screen tablet for $499 and still stimulate a magazine reading economy?
The ending result is a subscription base filled with the tech dorks who are willing to buy the device. Which explains why you have 3.5 times the amount of Wired subscribers compared with Vanity Fair subscribers on the iPad. In the world of print, Vanity Fair has equal to double the amount of subscribers than Wired.
It’s time for Apple to come down significantly on those iPads.