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Originally Posted by Drops
I think it is way too expensive. Irex has to open the device for the battery replacement anyways, so there is no extra time needed for replacing the back cover. 50 Euro for a piece of plastic is really steep.
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Kinda depends really. My iLiad is a few weeks old and has a serial number just under 10000, so I assume that approximately 10000 gen 1 iLiads have been sold. The tooling for making the back cover was probably designed to do 10 or 100 times that number of parts, so the amortisation of the cost of the tooling per cover is going to be 10 or 100 times what they originally expected, and a plastic injection moulding tool like that could cost about £100,000. So the cost of each gen 1 back cover could be as much as £10 (€15) rather than 10p (€0.15) as originally planned. Consequently iRex may be trying to recover some of the investment on the gen 2 back cover tooling in the cost of the upgrades.