If $299 is not a favorable price point for you, then perhaps you may want to grab a current generation Nexus while it's on sale for a Hisense tablet.
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But I think you miss the read between the lines here. Here at AC, you find mostly either the "power user," "geek user," or "educated," user... educated that they know AC exists and can come to the community to ask their questions and become better educated. What you don't see are the millions of owners, like RichardRight calls out, that have a defined price-point where the Nexus 7 was, as Goldie Locks stated... Just Right (pun intended in both directions). It is truly amazing what $100 does do to the marketing psyche. Nexus prices rise by $50... Apple drops the mini by $50... and now you have a different horse race all of a sudden. And once you introduce an Android user to an Apple product and introduce them to an iPhone 6 (the presumed lower cost model)... you risk the loss of the customer to the perceived stickiness of the other ecosystem.
It's a very complex concern... After all, it's only $50... If anyone here has ever purchased a boat for the first time, you know what I mean. "What a great deal I got on that Sea Ray 19BR!!!" Until you realize that your small V-6 truck can't pull the tandem trailer with the boat wet and fitted for skiing so you have to buy a new(er) truck just to the pull the boat and then you want to winter store it at home and don't have the space so you build a new garage and then realize the racks on your new truck don't fit under your garage door (the new truck is 6" higher than the old truck) so you have to replace the door and the header.... And all of a sudden, that great deal on that boat cost you $50,000 more than the actual boat.
Yeah, it goes like that... All for $50...