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Member Since: Sep 25, 2011
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 295
Mac Specs: 2011 MB Air Core i7 256GB, 2011 Mini with 8GB RAM, iPad 2, iPhone 4S, 2TB Time Capsule
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02-04-2012, 04:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Lordwarduke
I have 76 gigs worth of music on my iPod, 20 gigs worth of apps on my iPad, 30 gigs worth of comic cbr files and probably 5 gigs of books. You wonder how anyone could need more space? I remember thinking that a 20 gig hard drive in a desktop was enough. Point is you can never have too much storage space. I can't fit everything I want to on a 64gig iPad so a 128 would be awesome. As far as prices, apples cost per unit difference is small on the storage size, they actually could sell the 64gig version for the 16 gigs price and still make a 400% or better profit. Good example of electronics markups is the Jawbone Icon Bluetooth headset. Retailers cost for one is a tad over $16. They then sale them for $79.99
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Welcome to the forum.
The iPad to cost of materials alone is about $300 for the 16GB version. I understand that in much of consumer electronics the end retail markup is ridiculous. With the iPad it really isn't. Apple makes a lot less on the device because they control the back end market for media/apps/movies/etc...
I will admit that the 64GB version costs less than $100 dollars more to produce, but they aren't making 400% on anything in the iPad line up... The extras (docks/cases/covers) may have that kind of margin built in, but the iPad doesn't.
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