Forget features, it’s a price war between the tablets

The coming of iPad was every techie’s delight. It too proved itself worthy of the rave reviews and ravishing attributes such as revolutionary, next generation and radical innovation. Within a month of its launch, iPad crossed the 1 million sales mark. iPad 2 continued the success story and the iPad app developers minted money in the surging demand for iPad specific applications. The tech gurus crowned iPad 2 as ‘nothing like ever before’.

Eying the phenomenal success of Apple’s tablets some of the leading companies of the Silicon Valley jumped onto the tablet bandwagon to try their luck. One of them was Amazon.

Quality comes at a price but for those who chase sheer price have to end up loosing on the quality. The out-of-the-pocket price of iPad plus its covetable functionalities created a large group of people that wanted a tablet which could fit the bill, even if it meant having to compromise on some features.

Amazon, the world’s most popular online retailer launched its tablet Kindle Fire at half the iPad’s price at $199 and made a million sales within one month. This success figures brought in further trimming down of features and of course, lower prices.

Back in October this year when the supposedly iPhone 5 was expected to release, some IT students from India in collaboration with a Brit company launched the world’s cheapest tablet at a jaw dropping price of $60.

Apart from Amazon Kindle, not a lot of the companies have been able to make it big with low featured tablets. None the less, the tablet market is not yet ripe. Only time can tell where will the needle rest – Features or Price tag.