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Old 01-09-2014, 08:56 PM   #478
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Originally Posted by Sregener View Post
This is what is known as a value judgement. You're no longer dealing with things that are absolute, but subjective. In other words, the features you consider to be most valuable are not necessarily those that another person would consider worth anything, and vice versa. Thus, while you may have concluded that a larger screen isn't worth $80 *to you*, this is not the same thing as saying that the larger screen isn't worth $80 *to anybody.*
True, but we tend to set value by comparing costs to other similar things.
Even the Apple Macbook Air 13" is only $100 more than the 11", and that's in Apple dollars, which is currently less than $25 in normal money.*

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*Exchange rate based on the price difference of a 32GB and 64GB iPod Touch compared to the price for a 32GB micro sd card.... ;-)
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