hr@uicsl.UUCP (02/03/86)
RE:
"When you have high demand and not much competition, you will see high
prices if the people selling are trying to make maximum profits. A
similar thing happened with the Mac third party disk and memory market"
You should also tend to get lower prices when there are more potential
customers. The MAC has at least an order of magnitude larger customer
base. The PC and clones even more.
How much does it cost to develop and distribute an add on board? How many
Amigas have been sold? What fraction would be willing to spend many hundreds
of dollars more? I suspect that the add on memory board market may still
be in the hundreds or low thousands. A lot of the price may be fixed cost
amortization that could go down with increased sales expectations.
When someone finds out what kind of chips are used in the third party
memory boards let us know. Is MicroForge going to sell a partially populated
board?
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harold ravlin {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!uicsl!hr