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<div>At 7:16 PM +0100, 2/12/10, Paul Moortgat wrote:</div>
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No wonder Apple has 40 billion $ in their vault.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>But I still will pay a price 3 times
higher for a product that works than one that doesn't.</blockquote>
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<div>How ridiculous to think that they can estimate the cost of
production from Apple's description of the device.</div>
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<div>ie. "<font color="#000000">The least profitable model is the
16-GB iPad without 3G network access, which costs $229.35 to make and
will sell for $499</font>".</div>
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<div>When you see a number like that that ends with .35˘, it truly
shows the that absurdity of their guess. Apple's documents do not tell
the components that make up the iPad. It is only a guess at this time.
And then too, their guesstimate does not include the cost of the
software development nor the cost of the hardware development. Those
costs are far more important to recognize than the immediate cost of
production.</div>
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