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Originally Posted by monophoto
2. The price of memory is dropping pretty rapidly, and the technology behind memory is allowing the size of memory chips to increase pretty dramatically. While the largest SD card you can buy today is 1TB, there was an announcement last week that 2TB cards will become available within the next few months. But as the cost per byte drops, market demand will shift toward larger blocks which means that the time is coming when it will no longer be economically viable to manufacture smaller memory increments. So I suspect that Amazon is simply anticipating that within the next year or so, they will be forced to drop the 8GB offering altogether, and are preemptively shifting their focus toward larger sizes.
So the bottom line is that while we may not need more memory, we are still going to get it.
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Same thing happened with the Basic before. The first version of the Basic 10th gen only had 4gb, until they released an 8gb model for the same price and just dropped the 4gb model.
As you've mentioned, storage is getting cheaper over time. Storage is the most "marketable" option they can upgrade to justify selling the devices at the same price point.
Personally, I'd love to have more storage because I have half a mind to put in 74 volumes of a manga on my Kindle just for the sake of having it.
