{"id":749074,"date":"2013-04-30T16:45:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T20:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=476719"},"modified":"2013-04-30T16:45:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T20:45:56","slug":"fierce-competition-in-7-inch-tablet-range-is-destroying-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/749074","title":{"rendered":"Fierce competition in 7-inch tablet range is destroying profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/30\/7-inch-tablets-competition-profits\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/nexus-7-3498.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"7-inch Tablet Competition\" title=\"7-inch Tablet Competition\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Apple was criticized by a number of pundits when it finally unveiled the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/ipad-mini\">iPad mini<\/a> last November. While the device itself was well received by reviewers and consumers alike, some industry watchers felt Apple wasn't doing enough to compete on price. Starting at $329, the iPad mini is far more expensive than devices like the Kindle Fire or <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/nexus-7\">Nexus 7<\/a>. If <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/23\/apple-q2-2013-earnings-financials-460047\/\">Apple's recent earnings beat<\/a> showed us anything, however, it's that squeezing as much profit as possible out of the iPad mini was definitely the right move \u2014 iPad sales hit a new March-quarter record in 2013 and margins were sustained enough to help deliver $9.5 billion in profit. Not everyone has adopted Apple's strategy though, and a new report suggests the race to the bottom in the 7-inch tablet segment is squeezing profits across the board.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/30\/7-inch-tablets-competition-profits\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/XIAWflrDpwo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple was criticized by a number of pundits when it finally unveiled the iPad mini last November. While the device itself was well received by reviewers and consumers alike, some industry watchers felt Apple wasn&#8217;t doing enough to compete on price. Starting at $329, the iPad mini is far more expensive than devices like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38RQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}