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Originally Posted by franzli
Would be an annoying lesson for the manufacturers from customers' perspective though: bring out a device missing a key feature - people complain but there is no real competitor, so many people still buy - wait for a year or so to milk the market - bring out the same device including the missing feature this time, advertising it as huge progress and sell it for a little extra - same people pay another time for the "upgraded" version without significant extra R&D costs for manufacturer
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That would be a bit of a dastardly thing to do to your customers. However, from a business perspective, it could be tempting to do so... so long as your customers were never to find out that it had been a conscious plan all along. You could instead just spin it to say that you were listening to what your customers were saying, taking their suggestions to heart...
It might be kind of like offering a 64 GB Pro version only after you have sold a given number of regular units instead of offering the two units side by side... A staggered release of devices with additional memory capacities is likely to generate a few more sales, assuming, of course, that you have no viable competitors attempting to beat you to it.
How and ever, I suspect that they will not release a version with a card slot as the current trend seems to be toward forcing users to make use of cloud storage, something which I do not entirely trust although I can see its usefulness in certain circumstances.