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Originally Posted by ApK
Surely you must realize that the price of new technology seven years ago is meaningless in establishing the value of the current generation of the technology.
I'm not one of those predicting doom and gloom, but the $400 Kindle is absolutely irrelevant to the issue.
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I think you are missing my point. Its not that $400 is the correct price point for an eReader now. Its that saying that to say that no one would ever pay $200 for an eReader is not correct. While some people are complaining about the $200 price point, I bet a lot of people buying it are thinking to themselves how much better it is than the device they paid $400 for not to long ago. I know that's what I thought when I ordered mine.
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Originally Posted by ApK
You you disagree, perhaps you'd like to buy my Bluray disc player for $400? Or my VCR for $700? That's half of what I paid for my first one...what a bargain!
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And while I am personally not interested in your BluRay Player for $400, there is still a market for $400 Bluray players even though at the low end you can get them for $30. The early adopters and the high end market don't disappear just because a low end market shows up. That's the point I was trying to make.