On 24 Jan 2004 at 15:29, John Lovda wrote:
> > Are these 4Gb drives sold seperately ? That's the
> > only case i can see somebody comaplaining.... if
> > let's say Hitachi sells the 4Gb drives at more than
> > the Muvo price. ( i have no idea bout the
> > current 1 Gb microdrives).
>
> YES!! At Buy.com the MuVo2 4gb is on sale for $199
> (regular price $299) while the Hitachi 4gb CF
> Microdrive is selling for $495 all by itself!.
It probably boils down to the argument of product life-cycle vs stock
around the world....there's little they can do about the thousands of
MP3 players already produced, and there is little they *want* to do
if the product is halfway over it's life-cycle, measured in
quantity....changing production/software/hardware would increase
cost, and that is probably the last thing they want to do, when
trying to stay ahead of competition. And the MP3 manufacturer might
have received all those drives already, for his own stock, not
willing to give them back at all....:))
That, plus the fact that it can only be so cheap because they could
use an off-the-shelf component, generic technology, no wizzards
needed.
Production cycles/batches are probably shorter than those of a
D30....;))
Shame you need FAT32 btw, otherwise even DCS3 owners could use more
than 2GB....;))
(though the counter doesn't show more than 399 frames with 2GB....:))
(btw, if PCMCIA-card readers are taken
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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