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Old 11-06-2011, 07:13 AM   #39
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Originally Posted by monkeyluis View Post
Going back to the price though. Do you really think it costs that much now-a-days to manufacturer an SD card reader into a device. I don't think the addt'l cost of a NC or NC 2 is because of an SD card reader. I just find it hard to believe. Then again, i'm not a manufacturer, so I have no idea.
I agree it is inexpensive, but if you are designing to a $249 price adding a $2 (say) card reader costs $2 in profit because you are not going to raise the price to $251. A bigger reason for avoiding card readers is the support costs. Amazon had a card reader on the Kindle 1, and I would not be surprised if it caused a large fraction of the hardware-based device returns. Even so, I think Amazon should have included a SD reader on the Fire because storing large movie files in the cloud isn't the same as storing ebooks there.
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