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Originally Posted by Leporello
This is called marketing. Nothing wrong with that, most other consumer electronic companies do that, too.  |
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Originally Posted by clarke68
That would be fine if I could write off the cost of one of their players as a donation to science, but somehow I don't think that would fly.
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The bigger picture is working its way into the thread. I kind of want to push my point further but I don't want to seem pushy. It's just an interesting subject so I'll add my thoughts while respecting these points-of-view. Both quotes take a rather cynical view of, well, economics. If they weren't producing anything of value they would cease to exist in the marketplace. Some innovation is taking place but I don't know the company well enough to state emphatically that their strategy is ripping people off on their lower models, if we take the analysis of these photos in this thread as fact, to subsidize their high-end range.