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Originally Posted by delphidb96
Absolutely!
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So why hasn't the PVI/E-Ink developer kit come down in price? Who knows, who cares. And didj'all notice that the E-Ink dev kit uses a plain-jane Gumstix computer? That's between $119-$299. Hmmm...
Derek
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There's also the issue of support. PVI/E-Ink surely expects to be selling this kit to vendors who are intending to build E-Ink devices. That means that they also expect to be fielding support calls on everything from software to configuration to electrical issues to...
And it doesn't take very many phone calls to burn through an awful lot of money! Especially since they probably give (relatively) quick access to technical staff to resolve these questions. After all, the typical user of the dev kit is expected to be an equipment OEM, so there could be big sales attached.
The price is high mostly so that they don't need to staff up to handle large call volumes. And so that the calls they do get are highly likely to be correlated with future hardware sales.
Been there (on the side of the company producing the dev-kit, that is), done that, have many t-shirts.
Xenophon