Recent Comments:
HTC's US Touch Diamond now shipping from Best Buy {Engadget}
Sep 19th 2008 5:54PM The phone is only $449 without a contract from Telus in Canada. How can it be so expensive down in the US?
The editor-in-chief giveaway: Win Ryan Block's swag {Engadget}
Aug 25th 2008 1:13AM I am from Canada eh...
The editor-in-chief giveaway: Win Ryan Block's gadgets {Engadget}
Aug 24th 2008 1:24AM I live in Canada, I hope I can still get the stuff!!!!
Video: Intel launching 80GB 1.8- and 2.5-inch SSDs in Q3? {Engadget}
May 23rd 2008 12:09PM Ummm it is called Economies of Scale and achieving a suitable ROI. Companies are able to charge less for a product years after its introduction because the cost of the related equipment and research has been subsequently paid off by the initial higher prices that were charged at launch.
If costs were really as low as you are claiming there would be at least one company in the world that would charge a standard retail mark-up on these items and move a tonne more than everyone else based simply on price-point alone. However the costs to make such a device are real and thus the seemingly extremely high retail prices will remain as such.
Dell to integrate Alienware and XPS dev teams, take XPS line in "new directions" {Engadget}
May 16th 2008 9:14PM Wow you should let Dell know how easy it is. They are clearly wasting money employing these development teams.
Who would of thought such a large and succesful company such as Dell would of overlooked something so obvious.
Or maybe there is something more to making a gaming machine that people will actually buy...
