Wasn't there a time when a company like Sony would release a low, middle and high-end model of any given new product ? Now it's all about low-end models, the cheaper the better. I see the same trend with computers, 10 years ago when I marched into a computer store, there were both low and high-end models. One could choose a cheap computer if one was a casual user or an expensive high-end model if one was a hard-core user but not anymore. Nowadays in big stores you find ONLY low-end computers, the cheapest ones out there and not even a single fully equipped model. Now to find a high-end computer you must either get on the net or go to some small very specialized store where you'll have it customized (which I don't trust. what stops them from not adding the components I'll be paying for ? or adding second hand ones and so on ...) but the way things are evolving, in a few years even that won't be possible cause I guess the computer brands want to "
stay competitive".
Which market is next to this trend, cars ? Imagine you love cars and save money for years to get a nice BMW X6 only to find that it does not exist anymore, that only some cheap small model with a weak engine is available cause "
If BMW wants to stay competitive in the market, they can't sell fancy cars" anymore ...
I'm not wealthy but I can still afford to buy a high-end reader with the latest technology if it was only out there. I don't have to buy one every 6 months, which is why when I decide to buy one, I'd love a high-end high-tech model. but I guess there is no such thing anymore
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Originally Posted by charleski
While that screen is very nice (as much for the 206dpi as for the colour), there is no way in hell that it's going to sell at $500. For that much money people are simply going to buy an iPad. If Sony went down that route they'd be guaranteeing their failure.
Sony were obliged to compete on price and produce an ereader that will target the current explosion in the size of the market as a whole if they wanted to stay in it. If this means that they offer little to those who already have last year's model, then so be it. At least this means they'll still be around to produce better ereaders in the years to come.
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