Not exact matches
Such brand - licensing deals - as Nokia has struck for the N1
tablet - are less profitable
than manufacturing and selling its own products, but also less risky.
They are also working on producing
tablets, which are more complicated to
manufacture than liquid drugs.
There are way more
tablets sold
than ereaders, thus the
manufacturing costs are much less.
Tim Bajarin wrote a piece last week in PC WORLD where he mentioned the cost to develop and
manufacture the
tablet would be more
than what the company would sell it for.
The company is already credited for
manufacturing the Nexus 7
tablet, though that device is known more as a Google
tablet than belonging to Asus.
In fact, it is also being speculated they are selling the Kindle Fire for less
than the
manufacturing cost but plans to make up for the money lost by selling content on the
tablet.
The Taiwan - based computer giant will keep making netbooks, adding to its millions sold to date, but it will stick to simple models and
manufacture fewer
than in years past as
tablets gain popularity, he said
A 51.7 percent percent surge in ASUS»
manufacturing partner Pegatron's revenue during June might have been directly attributable to better
than expected ASUS
tablet sales.
Based on a list of known and expected components, it believes the seven - inch mini
tablet costs $ 209.63 in raw parts and
manufacturing, or about $ 10 more
than its $ 199 asking price.
Rather
than building any more own - branded
tablets itself, the bookseller says it will pursue «a partnership model for
manufacturing,» where future color devices will be co-branded with as - yet - unnamed electronics manufacturers.
Apple
manufactured more
than 60 percent of all
tablets bought during Q2 2012 worldwide.
A lot of work is still being done by the
manufacturing partner, but the company says they have more control over the design and
manufacturing process of the Pixel phones
than they ever had with the Nexus smartphones and
tablets.