Robisan wrote:
Miikerman wrote:
This brings to mind, though, why flash super-high capacity players aren’t coming out. String 8 16GB cards together, and you have a nifty 128GB player, for the memory retail cost of $240.
Or at least put the cheap 16gb chip onboard the Clip+ for less than $10 more then retail price of the 8gb Clip+ (2gb Clip+ for $33 plus a 16gb microsd for $29 – both retail prices). There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be able to have a 32gb Clip+ (16gb+16gb) for around $100. Quite simply, with the 2gb version at about $33, with memory prices as they are it’s a Sansa ripoff to sell the 8gb version for $55+. Evidently, there’s a huge ■■■■■■-driven demand however, because the 8gb Clip+ has actually risen in price over the past couple of months… </rant>
I finally gave up waiting for a 16gb Clip+ and got a 2gb unit just for the form factor. I refused to pay an additional ~$25 for a measly 6gb more onboard – I can spend that on a 16gb microsd and have 18gb total.
…Adding, the irony is that if Sansa had actually come out with a 16gb Clip+ priced at around $80-$90, I’d have bit and they would’ve extracted an extra $50 from me, most of that pure profit – indeed, more in added pure profit than they got from me in total for the 2gb unit. Instead, all they got was the equivalent of a large pizza and pitcher of beer. They’re marketing geniuses I tell ya…
(Sorry for the thread diversion.)
That’s a good point…I never thought of that. Makes me glad that the one 8GB model I have was free, and the other 8GB model that’s coming in the mail for me was free, too.
