of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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Perhaps if MSI or Dell had created competing products back in November, they would have been cheaper than the original Eee. What we're seeing now is probably not Asus jacking up prices arbitrarily, but the sad fact that Asus was never really in a position to be price-competitive with MSI or Dell on the same playing field.
Asus had the market all to themselves for 8 months. Now the big dogs have come to play, and they can afford to build cheaper than Asus can. Not really Asus' fault. Bless 'em for creating this market in the first place.
j.z,
While you're right about Dell vis-a-vis volume pricing, I cannot agree with making the same argument for MSI. Aren't both Asus and MSI are mainly motherboard manufacturers? Before their incursion into and/or creation of the netbook market, did either one of them ever make an out-of-the box consumer product?