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Originally Posted by Luigino
Well...as more than a person said, there are also persons that doesn't really need additionals stuffs like WiFi or whatever...like me... and there should be the possibility to build a version without those additional optionals and it would cost surely less than expected for the market...
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The higher the amount of different models, the higher the price. Extra design means extra cost, but marketing, logistics and mostly production all require extra money. In short, the thing would end up being more epxensive, so that in the end, the price point of your low-end model, could end up suprsingly high (and the higher-end model is also more expansive). Only Astak knows the increase of price, of course.
The low and high-end products need not differ much in design, yet it seems likely the design would end up different from a single design.
Astak needs to predict whether the extra costs are worth it. (it is not unlikely they would use sites such as these to predict what costumers want).
I'm going to buy the 9.7" with all the bells and whistles anyway (note to Astak: make sure the extra peripherals require no power or as little as possible when not in use (quite obvious, but forgetting would be disastrous for battery life)).