Apple is Negotiating $4.5 Billion Apple iPad Deal with Turkey

[afsina]

This is rather disturbing. Event they lower their margins crazily they cannot match say, Nexus devices. Plus this would be a softare-hardware lock-in that Turkish people cannot effort in the future. Very very bad move, if they do this..

[Osmium]

Quite impressive. What's their current profit margin on iPads? 30%? Not to mention that this won't cannibalise an existing market: this is all extra. People in Turkey who were going to buy iPads probably still will. If anything, it might make more sales as word-of-mouth spreads from the students.

Edit: Just saw the price per unit. Even at $300 there's probably still a good profit margin though, especially if they're non-Retina models.

[johng]

Would that qualify as one of the biggest "sales" ever? :)

[ArabGeek]

maybe

[btian]

$300 per unit sounds low. Cheapest iPad 4 goes for $500, and Apple has a ~40% margin. Selling an iPad for $300 will eliminate all their margin.

[hkarthik]

I bet they plan to make up for it with content sales via iTunes and the App Store.

[smackmybishop]

What's next, Gucci textbook covers? They could buy just as many Nexus 7's, at full MSRP, at 33% savings.

Let's see, $1.5B saved... Average Turkish teacher salary (after 15 years) is $16,000/yr. They could trivially save 93,750 teacher-years of salary?

[muhuk]

But a more open platform like Android would perhaps produce a less consumerist generation. That would truly be a shame. And what if some of them chose to tinker and build things?</sarcasm>

[ArabGeek]

I think the Turkish goverment is wasting thier money, they could have bought the indian tablet which cost below 100

[btian]

that's comparing apples to oranges

[p3nt3ll3r]

and watched it go to shit 1 week later