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Originally Posted by Hellmark
But the question is could they have made the 350 at enough of a price difference to make it worth while. You have to remember the 350 was selling for more than the T1. Why would people pay more for a device that does less, for slightly smaller size?
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Yup, the mass market tends to frown upon "more expensive for less". Especially from a single manufacturer. I remember Apple getting flak from the average individual for charging more for the iPod Touch vs the iPhone. Not realizing that subsidies play a huge role there.
What I can see Sony doing is bringing back the 5" model by pushing into the sub-100$ range. Don't know how feasible it really is, but it is a price barrier that has been hard to reach. I could also see a 7" Wifi+3G model as being a premium model that would actually have a market, but it's also possible that Sony is following B&N by assuming the tablet space will eat up any e-reader bigger than 6" and spit it out.