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Old 11-20-2014, 08:11 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
You misunderstood me.

My point is that technical improvements, meaningful or not, can't convince people to buy if their needs are already met. Benefits, not features, is what sells. Old saw from the PC world.
Look to 3D TVs and 4K TVs, for starters.
Techies drool but the market shrugs.

Foxconn could deliver a 10 GHz tablet with 1GB hard drive and a holographic display for $499 and the people who use their tablets for email and websurfing who say "cool" and keep on keeping on.
I submit that offering say... half a terabyte or two terabytes of memory is doable, and would drive another round of people upgrading earlier models. Processing power and graphics may be to the point where people have a hard time justifying a new machine but internal memory and removable storage is still way below what current manufacturing capacity could put out.
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