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Originally Posted by tomsem
Also they want to enforce the artificial pricing tiers so that people buy more tablet than they really need (because you can't expand the memory later). Most people could probably manage quite nicely with the low end 16GB but you don't know that until you've used it for a few months. So 'entry level' is the price everybody finds attractive but nobody actually winds up purchasing. The models above that have more profit built in.
Likewise with the lack of 3G modularity. If they offered upgradable wifi model, people would just get that and forget to upgrade.
Apple's certainly not the only one doing this kind of thing, of course, but that doesn't make the practice less annoying.
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That's a great point--I had not considered that. (I even had an iPod Touch that ran out of memory all the time.)