The iPad mini 2 will force the competition to keep lowering its prices

Despite the controversies about whether Steve Jobs would have approved or not a project like the iPad mini and about their Technical specifications relatively modest, the compact tablet of Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), it has become a resounding success. This success, however, will have quite negative repercussions on competition, according to analysts, who predict that the downward trend in Prices of tablets will be accentuated in the coming times.

There was a lot of skepticism about the possibilities of the iPad mini before its launch, but it has finally been more than proven that Cook was completely right with this project. Although the compact tablet of Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is channeling the sales of his older sister and that will outsell you much earlier than expected, this device is undoubtedly helping those of Cupertino to stop their announced decline against Android.

As always, which is good news for Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, they are not so much for their competitors: according to analysts at JP Morgan, the fact that the iPad mini has managed to attract so much attention from tablet users is a sign of the absence of competitors that can rival the devices of those from Cupertino. Even despite the criticism of the modest Technical specifications Of the compact tablet of the apple company, no other manufacturer seems to be able to produce a tablet that can arouse the same interest.

From this diagnosis, the analysis concludes that the only way in which rivals can continue to compete with Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is to lower prices: the trend that already began to appreciate in 2012 towards devices with a value for money increasingly adjusted and towards the proliferation of low-cost tablets, it seems that it is going to consolidate. The possibility that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), may present in the middle of this year a iPad mini with screen Retina for the same price as the current generation (something that is not without complications, given that the estimates for the price of the iPad miniRetina point to an increase in the cost of manufacturing up to 30%), will only force the prices down even more.

Although the analysis focuses on the iPad miniHowever, it is not the only reference point for this expected drop in prices. Manufacturers trying to compete with Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), face, on the other hand, another rival almost as dangerous, the Nexus 7: the barrier of 200 dollars / euros established by the popular tablet Google It is an equally important benchmark, and estimates indicate that we will see more and more devices launch at lower prices than this in order to have a good chance of gaining a foothold in the market. In fact, so far we have already seen a few companies whose latest launches remain precisely between those figures, such as Asus y Acer and it seems that the seconds are getting good results from this strategy.

Source: CNET.