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The "inadequate" Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 at the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona. Photo: Charlie Sorrel

Samsung’s mobile VP Lee Don-Joo has taken a look at the iPad 2 and decided that his own Galaxy Tab 10.1 isn’t up to scratch. “We will have to improve the parts that are inadequate,” he told the Korean Yonhap news agency.

Further, Samsung was planning to sell the 10-inch Tab for more than the seven-incher, but that too has changed. “[W]e will have to think that over,” said Lee.

When I tried out the Tab 10.1 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month, it seemed like a plastic toy with a gorgeous screen. Its “superior” specs turned out to be squeezed in so they could be marked off on a feature checklist.

The camera is terrible, the Android Honeycomb OS feels like an old-timey desktop OS, and the plastic body may make it light, but it also makes it feel cheap. Obviously Samsung was building down to a price.

Now that the iPad 2 has slimmed down and added cameras and a faster, dual-core processor, even those hardware differences have evaporated. This will be worrying not just for Samsung, but for Motorola and all the other tablet-makers trying to make a dent in Apple’s market. Expect a lot of pre-announced tablets to mysteriously disappear.

Lee’s words are telling. These companies are doing all they can to compete with the iPad, but — as Steve Jobs said at the launch event on Wednesday — they’re making PCs. And nobody is buying them, because iPad buyers don’t care about megapixels and CPU clock-speeds.

A final remark from Lee sums up the bewilderment these companies must be feeling. “Apple made it very thin,” he said.

Samsung sees iPad 2’s thinness, price as challenges [Yonhap News Agency via Physorg]

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That’s according to new numbers from Nielson. The research firm now has Android at 29 percent of the total U.S. market, just beating out the iPhone and BlackBerry, who are neck and neck at 27 percent a piece. Microsoft’s Windows Mobile devices (Windows Phone 7 included) now make up 10 percent of the U.S. market. Palm and Symbian round out the top five, with four and two percent, respectively.

Whether you love or loathe Apple, you have to be happy with the company’s aggressive upgrade of the iPad. It has led to Samsung, purveyor of an Android 3.0 tablet by the name of Galaxy Tab 10.1, to look more closely at its own hardware and pricing model and, according to executive VP Lee Don-Joo, “improve the parts that are inadequate.” We don’t know what those are, specifically, however he notes that “Apple made [the iPad 2] very thin” and also goes on to say that Samsung will be rethinking its pricing strategy with the Tab 10.1. It was originally going to cost more than the 7-inch Galaxy Tab, but in light of Apple’s new product, Samsung might have to cut into its profit margins… or maybe even forgo profits altogether to make its new Tab a success.

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This article was written on September 07, 2007 by CyberNet.

Aside from the iPhone price drop and the release of the new iPod Touch, the next biggest news coming out of Apple this week was the announcement that NBC doesn’t intend to renew their contract with iTunes once their current contract runs-out in December. The reason is because neither party can agree upon a price to sell NBC’s TV shows at. Apple reported that NBC wanted some of their shows to be priced at more than double what they currently are ($1.99) and Apple just wouldn’t have that. While it may seem as though this is all NBC’s fault, it appears as though there’s more to it than what we originally thought.

According to Variety, NBC and Apple couldn’t agree to a price because while NBC envisions their prices going up, Apple envisions the price of TV shows going down to 99 cents. Apple’s retort was that NBC would end up making more money anyway because more people would take advantage of the downloads at the cheaper price. Clearly both parties are headed in a different direction with this situation.

Now of course we know that Apple’s motives aren’t just to give the consumer a better price.  They’re in business and they have to look-out for themselves. So what’s really their motive behind wanting to slash the prices of TV show downloads? Well, if you think about it, the new iPod Touch is a perfect place to watch TV shows, isn’t it? The change in price that Apple is requesting would place TV shows at the same price as what iTunes sells DRM-infested music for, which could ultimately help them sell more iPods.More sales make Apple and their investors happy.

While some people have given up hope that Apple and NBC will be able to work something out, Wired reports the deal isn’t dead yet.  A comment from NBC Universals’ Executive VP of Communications provided this insight : "NBC is hopeful that we can reach a resolution with Apple before the existing contract expires." It sounds to me like both parties are going to have to compromise here, otherwise it’s a lose-lose situation for them and all their users.

Source: Ars

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