pfarrell;461911 Wrote: > > > I find the tone of this whole thread to be insulting. Its a free > market, > if you don't want to spend that much, don't buy it. > > If a few folks want to, you could take a mould off one and use > prototyping equipment to make a few dozen or maybe a hundred. > > That the incremental cost of making "one" more unit is tiny is > irrelevant. You don't think that there is $40,000 worth of materials > in > that F-150 pickup truck that you just bought? Someone has to amortize > the engineering and tooling and marketing costs. > > Grow up, please. > > -- > Pat Farrell > http://www.pfarrell.com/
Pat I have to respectfully disagree with you here from the perspective of someone who spent years in manufacturing. The F-150 analagy works for a lot of the logitech products that have high startup costs and continuous labor input for manufacturering. This is not one of them, this appeArs to be a classic case of marketing deciding what they think a product can sell for based on the demographic they anticipate purchasing it and that is driving the price. Much like the aforementioned replacement costs for items that are already included in the original box. Just look at this in comparison to the touch itself. The profit Garderob) but I doubt the engineering cost vs sales ratios are remotely close to the same. Not to mention the continued engineering, warranty etc... Costs that the touch will incur which the bracket won't. The part you were dead on about is that it's a free market, which is why many of the people on this thread will choose to express their displeasure by not purchasing it. Who knows though. Maybe logitech will listen and offer a package price to reduce the cost for people who know they want both. -- Jonnio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jonnio's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18575 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68046 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
