Could iPad prices drop the way the iPhone did after launch?

Was wondering if anyone has an ideas on prices in the UK ? I've found at Uk site at http://www.ipadprices.co.uk but there's no sign of prices

1000$ with all what accessories!?!? They haven't even announced the prices of the only 3 accessories they have! And frequent trips to the computer for re-syncing on the 16gig model??? I have a 32gig iPhone. 4 movies, loads of photos, tons of songs, 22 gigs left. And what about that N support??? Can you say wireless sync? No plugs?

that said, the difference between the wifi only and the +3g is a bit much. I get that there's license fees etc but is it really $100+ per unit. And would it hurt Apple to take a little less profit overall.

I think that in the next few weeks they will start a pre-order system so they can gauge how many units to send to each store. and from that they could see how hot the ipad will be and any price drop will happen from that info before the launch rather than pull another iphone 1.0 game and piss off folks.

I decided to skip the iPad and hackintoshed a tablet pc. It turns out you can do some pretty interesting things in Mac OS X with notebooks that have serial wacom digitizers installed on them...

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"(pricing could change if the company is not attracting as many customers as anticipated)."

You mean Apple might apply standard corporate strategy to the pricing of a product?

WOW!

Not.

Keep the prices and stick that camera in there!

I would consider an Ipad for my house if it was a few hundred dollars cheaper for the high-end. Right now, by the time you get all the accessories you need, the package is right around $1000.

I am not fooled by the lower memory one. Everyone is going to be a bit dissapointed about the small memory if they start loading up video on it. Really, any large amount of media is going to require frequent trips to a main computer to re-sync new content.

And with the lack of Flash and the fact that HTML5 content is years away from becoming mainstream, streaming video isn't going to really happen. At least not premium content. But isn't that what Apple wants? You to buy your shows from iTunes?

Sought after gadgets in limited supply already have a secondary market at drastically higher prices (like the Wii console at launch). Why shouldn't tech companies earn the profit normally made by e-bay sellers. Maybe too high a price will kill interest in the product (like say, the original PS3), but Apple's core customers are not as price sensitive as the average consumer. Besides, if the iPad provides an immediate benefit, it is worth a price premium to have it immediately.

as one of the early iphone adopters i'll be sure to boycott the ipad initially and see how it pans out and reviews and of course in-store hands on...pass on the boycott news come launch and see if we can bombard apple with the need to lower the costs. they will make it up in the first 20-30 apps i buy anyways :P