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iPad UK Pricing: An analysis, some maths, and my predictions…

Mar 07

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In today’s strain of boredom, I had a look at Apple’s iPad pricing, and decided to work out what the most probable prices for the device will be when it gets released here in “late April” (cheers, Steve, you promised us late March back in January).

For starters, these are the confirmed US Dollar prices in America:

And then, I did a bit of Maths.

• Firstly, taking a direct exchange price into GBP at today’s exchange rate
• Then adding 17.5% VAT
• Then adding an average inflation based on other Apple products and their UK pricing
• Then making a logical decision of UK price points.

You can see all my working out in this PDF document.

And then, I finally came to these 6 price points. Lets see how close I am when the real prices get released

Update (9th April ‘09): It’s been a month, and since then, the exchange rate has changed (for the worse!) from 0.661 to 0.651, meaning the prices could be a bit more that this. Having said that, I doubt it will make too much difference…!