My guess is the minimum price for the Mini will be $349 for a 16gb model, but I wouldn't be surprised at all to see it at $399. Apple's pricing structure does not have to follow that of Android OEMs. They can set the price and people will flock to their products because they are the best in the world at convincing the public that their products are amazing and should be purchased without question.
This sounds about right, and it will definitely have a good rear camera. And you're right about their marketing machine to a point.
They can't get too crazy with their prices, regardless of how good (or annoying) their marketing is. Still, uninformed people (and that's a lot of people) will flock to it and pay a premium price because of the marketing. However, they will get a very high quality, well built product, a solid but yawn inducing OS, and a safe but wickedly closed ecosystem in return.
As much as the Apple OS and ecosystem (and zombie creating marketing scheme) aren't for me, I still consider their devices to be pretty damn good. Some of that premium price does go toward the engineering and build quality. The rest goes toward ridiculously high profit margins for Apple.
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