nicklouse;513042 Wrote: > would have been a better price without the touch screen ability. True, perhaps, but that's not the way it usually seems to work, especially with consumer electronics. Logitech, and Slim Devices before them, have decided that the price point for SBs is $US300. The SliMP3 debuted at $250, but then the SB1, SB2, SB3, and Boom each entered the market at $300. Then the question becomes what components and features you can put in that $300 box to make people want to buy it and still turn a reasonable profit.
Yes, there are exceptions, most notably the Transporter and the SB Radio, which are aimed up-market and down-market from the main SB line. Also the SB Receiver cut costs relative to the SB3 by taking out the display, which is the most expensive component of an SB3. Which does beg an interesting question: will Logitech follow up the SB Touch with: a) a Touch that has an LCD but not a touchscreen b) a Touch that has no display at all (ie, SBR2) c) both (a) and (b) d) neither (a) nor (b) One big difference is that the Touch's LCD is nowhere near as big a share of the product cost as the earlier VFD's were. But I have no idea what the cost implications are for a touchscreen vs non-touchscreen. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74694 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
