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Originally Posted by snipenekkid
one day people will stop buying into this crap. Such "plans" do nothing but show two things. One device prices are far inflated over their real value. Somewhere along the line MSRP has become accepted as the true value of things. Not sure when it happened but it did. Second it also shows just how inflated the "plans" are for phones and these data plans. First Verizon is likely paying no more than $300/device anyway plus they are getting another $500-$1000/plan someone actually pays for. And the cost of delivering the bandwidth for these data plans is around $25 for 2-years.
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Here I agree with you entirely. With the Xoom, I will likely get the data plan, but only because I would want a data plan with it anyhow. If it saves me a couple hundred on the device then fine.
But back to your point, the kicker is that if Motorola had set the price even 100 dollars lower they would have eliminated many complaints about price and created that much more an attractive product.