My estimate matches the median, is towards the high-end of the Street analysts and the low-end of the independents.
Main differences between the high and low end of the tablet market are memory capacity and network.
The question now becomes, will the high end of the tablet market keep pace with the low end?
To succeed in what has become a wildly competitive industry, handset vendors like RIM need to target the high or low end of the market, Gillis writes in a Sept. 16 note to investors.
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The high end might be around 32 GB of memory vs. 16 GB for the low end.
American Expedition Vehicles, which outfitted Mr. McConnell's Jeep, is trying to carve out a middle ground between the very expensive, high-concept restorations that ICON offers and the low end of the SUV customizing market represented by dozens of companies that sell kits for do-it-yourselfers to jack up the suspensions of their Jeep Wranglers.
And its handset range, which spans the cost spectrum from very high-end to the very low, is considered the broadest of any carrier.
Going forward, look for the latest, greatest, high-end devices to all be vertically integrated, while many of the low-cost, copy-cat devices will come to the market later and be made by mass market manufacturers like Samsung.
The current pricing of Android phones is not working against Apple in either the high-end or the low-end smartphone market.
The high for the year came at the end of January, as it dropped 18.7% to a low in the latter part of March.
This chart shows that the typical seasonal tendency is for a high around March 6 (in red), then a low around March 14 (in green) followed by another high on the 21st with a low at the end of the month.
Let current market conditions guide the low, mid and high-end range of your offer.
And Project SHIELD provides fidelity and dynamic range never before available on a portable device, through its custom, bass reflex, tuned port audio system -- with twice the low-frequency output of high-end laptops.
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And that while RIM will surely keep growing, it may cede the high-end of the smartphone market and become a mid- to low-end player.
Reitzes notes that some investors assume Apple will ignore the low end of the market to keep industry high subsidies and ASPs.
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At the end of the empire, the tax rates were high and the revenues were low.
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Some universities, including Moglen's Columbia, are also attacking what might be called the low end of the market as well as the high end.
Splitting that line into high- and low- end products, rather than simply cutting the price of older models creates new risks, even as it reduces the risk Apple runs by building such an enormous business around a single product.
All the firms offer services from high-end businesses like IT consulting to low-end management of servers and business process outsourcing.
Dr Lomborg's assessment of the science in this area leads him to venture that warming is more likely to be at the low end of the range expected by leading experts than at the high end.
Economists tend to look at statistical aggregates covering high and low end income, and in doing so, fail to study the career paths of individuals.
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Hardly game over though: Cisco has wars to fight for corporate video business with the likes of Polycom (low end) and HP (here, at a struggling high end that may well go away) in this turf, and has to win a lot of service providers.
This revolutionary technology fills the gap between low-end hobbyist machines with limited resolution and high-end printers that cost tens of thousands of dollars.
It drives short-term interest rates lower allowing banks to borrow low on the short-term end of the yield curve, and lend high on the long end.
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But banks do have strong brands and plenty of capital: they may end up buying some of the online brokers, though not at their current high share-prices and low profitability.
But the percentage of those that ever end up producing anything is low: 5% would be a high estimate.
This is classic disruptive innovation where low end, good enough software and systems eat away at the functionality of existing high end scale-up architectures.
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The new imager utilizes Samsung's advanced 1.4 micron (um) back side illuminated (BSI) pixel technology to offer superior low-light sensitivity, satisfying the high quality imaging requirements of smartphones, high-end feature phones and camcorders.
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What this means is that the iPhone mix tilted towards the low-end, probably because many high-end smartphone buyers deferred their iPhone purchases until the launch of the iPhone 5, while lower-end purchases remained steady.
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