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Originally Posted by Igottago
But Google Nexus 7 32 GB - $269 CDN, Apple Ipad Mini Retina 32 GB - $519 CDN.
Is the ecosystem really worth a whopping $250 price difference? You could just about buy 2 Nexus 7's for the price of one Ipad mini.
I've owned a lot of apple products, including Ipads, and it just seems incredibly unreasonable to me, especially given that competing products are now very good and very well reviewed.
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Without getting into poor analogies (like cars, wines, food, homes, electronics, hookers, drugs, etc.), you can indeed buy twice as many "X" as "Y". The market clearly suggests that the ecosystem/experience/product difference/whatever you want to call it, is worth that difference to a very significant number of people. The iPad mini itself has outsold the Nexus 7 by multiple times in just sheer numbers.
Now to be fair, there are more options on the android side at the "mini" size factor so perhaps there is a more even spread over multiple models. But certainly the one to one comparison isn't even close.
Additionally, in spite of android activation/"shipped not sold" numbers being multiple times larger, the App store still generates multiple times more money. I find that developers and content makers target that money and often release first (and perhaps more polished) on iTunes but that is certainly much more equal these days. As a business, it just makes sense to target the money first as any real business (and blackberry apps last
). It all goes back to that whole research thing that indicates that android has a much larger install base but they tend to be much older and poorer (and less educated - but that doesn't really factor into this discussion and sounds fanboyish).
Regardless, no one else can speak for your situation and experience - the iPad mini pricing it may indeed be unreasonable to you for whatever reason (your experience and derived enjoyment from each model, your financial resources, your previous (lack) of investment in an ecosystem, etc.)
And that's totally cool.
But the market will ultimately tell us if it is unreasonable to the masses. At least that is the theory.
