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Originally Posted by Harmon
There's a lot of rumbling about Apple getting ready to issue a media player that will be something on the order of a kingsized iPod Touch - an iPad.
If Apple issues an iPad at about the dimensions of the KDX screen, it seems to me that the KDX will die a quick death at any price short of free.
Even now, I can't see any reason that a student would buy it, unless it's subsidized by the university. And there's the answer, I think - this thing's going to be free for students. I don't think that Amazon really thinks that very many ordinary readers are going to buy one.
I think that the ordinary reader is going to get a K2, and the nominal price of the KDX might have been set to make the ordinary reader regard the K2 price as relatively reasonable.
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I don't get it. What's with the price worries? It's still a boatload cheaper than the DR1000. Sure, it's only got like 1/3 of the features, but for people who read a lot the larger size might still work for them. Most phones cost something like 500$ unsubsidized anyway, so it's hardly as if the figure is really that large.