Will Apple make preemptive strike, cut iPad price?
Apple should get a jump on the tablet competition Wednesday by dropping the price of the iPad and expanding its distribution, an analyst said today. Not that he expects Apple to follow his advice.
"They're not going to drop the price, that's not going to happen, maybe not until later this year," said Stephen Baker, an analyst with retail research firm NPD Group.
Still, he had a hope -- slim though it might be -- that Apple will, as he said, "shoot off a cannon in a tablet price war" Wednesday. Apple is expected to introduce its next-generation iPad -- what most have already dubbed the "iPad 2" -- at an event slated to start at 10 a.m. PT in San Francisco. The company, as usual, has been closed-mouthed, and has done nothing but hint that the event will feature a new tablet.
