"I don't think Nokia will try to compete with Apple directly. Instead, they'll be looking to target new tablet users who aren't yet hooked to Apple or Android."
Good point. New tablet users and also other tablet users who are going to be looking at all the Windows 8 tablet possibilities. Nokia might have some sort of advantage here.
Nokia can bring a change in the tablet market with its first Windows 8 tablet. Apple has been dominating the market, Android tablets so far have failed to bring any major change in the market, hope is resting on Windows 8 tablet.
Nokia han not made any official announcements concerning tablet specs, as I was told by a Nokia's spokesman, other than what I wrote and what Marko Ahtisaari has said about it concerning voice recognition, which is quite a good one, I would say.
"Apple has one of the highest profit margins per product sold and I dont think Nokia would want to follow that model."
I don't believe that either. However, if Nokia is really sure about the competitiveness of its tablet it might want to place it at the same price level of the iPad.
It depends on what the target market will be. It could be the iPad consumers. But then again, iPad consumers are too loyal to Apple to make a change. What do you think?
On one hand I doubt that Nokia or anyone else is going to steal Apple's throne in the tablet world; on the other hand I believe Nokia might come up with something surprising after having taking its good time to enter the tablet market, don't you think so?
"Why did it take Nokia so long to get into the tablet market?"
Honestly, I haven't been able to get to that answer yet. We have discussed many times about how difficult Apple's PR and press service can be; now it seems that Nokia wants to play the same secretive little game, which I find particularly annoying. However, I am still after getting that question properly answered.
I believe a Nokia's tablet has many more possibilities of success than the RIM's Blackberry Playbook.
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