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Originally Posted by Fx_
Higher prices are actually an indicator of how much engineering, material, researching, and even software development that went into the product.
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Sorry this is not an discussionboard about difference between Amazon of Kobo, but this is rubbish.
Sure, a manufactorer wants his money back,and sure he wants to make some profit, but if I make a very bad tablet or e-reader and price it high,that should be according to you, an indicator of how much engineering there is in, that is what the commercial part of the company wants you to believe.
By example, some years ago you have a tv brand Called Aristona, and it was rather low in price against a competition company called Philips which is much more expensive.
The high price was defended with the story that the Philips components are much better.
It worked and the commercials against Aristona from Philips get more and more agressive.
They used Aristona to defend their higher prices.
If Philips was a device class A, then Aristona was a class G or something,they even give the retailers more marge on the Philips so they use Aristona only for an example: "It is so cheap, it just can't be good, and yes Philips is much more expensive but you pay for quality !"
On Philips you got 3 years warrantee,on Aristona only 1.
Later on,they discovered that in the inside of Aristona devices,are only Philips parts and even later they discovered that the production of Aristona was made completely in the Philips factory.
They only made the brand Aristona to make the price of the Philips even more higher.
And if people still buy an Aristona,they get the money also.
Grundig did the same with Vestel, Grundig mainly made in Germany, but Vestel was from a Grundig factory in Turkey, Grundig was the best, Vestel was the most worst (in the commercials)
Most of the time in this day, you pay for the brand and marketing,not for the quality.
But there are more costs like copyrights of dictionary's and used fonts that are in the price.
Maybe Kobo uses cheaper fonts,cheaper dictionary's then Voyage, but cheaper doesn't mean it has a lower quality,only different. (But you can use custom fonts and dictionary's in the Kobo.)
But again, you made your choice on your own arguments and that is very fine, I am not a Kobo guy,you don't have to defend your choice.
I am not saying that Kobo is better then Voyager or vice versa, but the difference in price does not justify the "difference" in quality.
Only some arguments are a bit odd for me,but because English is not my native language,I can't deal with every part of your explaination.
If u want,we can go on with this discussion in private messages ?