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Originally Posted by joblack
The price tag for such a "niche product" is certainly higher than any mass production e-reader. It's just economically that way.
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From my very own niche of myself.
The price is high, because those screen are a monopoly.
To cut the price of the readers, that we probably will buy anyway (if i can spend 800 euro i can spend 900), the rest of the hardware is seriously
under dimensioned to do task that the screen can do fine
(browsing, office usage, putty usage, email....90% of my work time).
So when a casual observer watch my 8 inches onyx, he suddenly got interested, because we ALL have eyes, but then the interest vanish in few minutes when i tell the cost and i can't assure some of the basic usage above.
The cost is too high for someone just occasionally reading a pdf.
They don't buy those readers, so there is no demand for big screen.
So they cut costs with the rest of the hardware.
So we remain a niche because the devices are...can i say useless ?
And it's not that i don't buy hardware that i seldom use, if the cost is cheap enough and it's spread everywhere.
For example my smartphone has a camera, a fm radio, an nfc reader and probably some other hw features i seldom use.
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