{"id":38037,"date":"2011-11-11T10:59:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T08:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=38037"},"modified":"2011-11-11T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T09:02:43","slug":"tablet-pricing-set-to-drop-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/38037-tablet-pricing-set-to-drop-in-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"Tablet pricing set to drop in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <em>Digitimes<\/em> analyst, <a title=\"James Wang\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/380961-James-Wang\">James Wang<\/a>, end-user pricing on tablet PCs is set to drop significantly in 2012 as competition increases among vendors.<\/p>\n<p>Wang\u2019s news report suggests that the average price of a 10-inch tablet PC will drop to between $299 and $399 next year, and 7-inch models will retail for between $199 and $249.<\/p>\n<p>Wang also speculates that <a title=\"Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/356046-Amazon\">Amazon<\/a> will drop the price of the Kindle Fire down to $149 to remain competitive.<\/p>\n<p>The report also detailed eReader sales next year, and suggests that device shipments will grow by 31.4 percent in 2012 to around 28.9 million units.<\/p>\n<p>Wang also expects to see a price drop in eReaders next year, and predicts that Amazon&#8217;s successful eReader could sell for as little as $49.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2011\/11\/10\/tablet-pricing-to-drop-in-2012-ereader-shipments-to-grow-31-4\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tablet pricing is set to drop in 2012, followed by an increase in eReader shipments, says analyst<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":26625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[723,1727,5896,6641,6639],"class_list":["post-38037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-kindle","tag-apple-ipad-2","tag-digitimes","tag-james-wang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38047,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38037\/revisions\/38047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}