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Originally Posted by Dopedangel
Well Nook 7 8gb costs $187 in materials alone so I see why they did not add more memory or add sd card slot to it. If you need more memory you get the 16gb version otherwise google would have lost millions in selling this tab. At the moment they will most probably recover most of the costs of the 8gb one with the 16gb.
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In this case you are probably right. But why did memory modules not drop in price as they did in the past? Because device makers have been shortchanging us and did not steadily increase storage size. In 2008-2009 32GB cost as much as 8GB in 2007. Why, because they could produce in quantity. If they hadn't started this silly game, 128GB would cost as much as 32GB in 2009 and 64GB would be the low end.