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Originally Posted by emai7s2
...The funny thing is I didn't blink an eye to buy an Apple Newton for $1200 back in the day, and also paid extra for additional memory ($250 /20mb) and for a keyboard. So the market has involved and radically changed expectations....
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That's the odd thing!
In 2002, I've paid 4000 Euros for a fantastic Toshiba notebook. Satellite Pro xxx.
A few years later, prices dropped to less than 1500 Euros.
Or even more extreme:
About 30 years ago, I've paid 700 German Marks (= 350 Euros nowadays) for a disk drive for my beloved Commodore 64! A game back then was 100 German Marks. Nowadays consumers find 5 Euros for an iOS game expensive...
And I guess, this decline in prices is one of the main reasons for the parallel decline of quality...