I don't really see the equivalence.

I don't really see the equivalence. The dev kit may be overpriced, but the price of a kindle isn't really a good indicator, to me. They seem like very different products. How long do you think a kindle would last out in the elements? What is the battery like? What is the I/O like? Security (physical and software)? Is the screen contrast similar? SDK support? Customizability? 60601 ? All of these things are potentially expensive to provide. Anyway, it may not be the right dev kit for your applications, but the fact that they share a display technology is a tiny piece of the puzzle. As you note, for you, the kindle might do a lot more for less cost (in which case, why not just use one?) In my experience, looking at mass produced consumer electronics is a pretty terrible way to spitball the cost of anything that isn't mass produced consumer electronics.

Posted by ska on Jul 22, 2015, 3:23 PM

Tags

• pricing (SaaS)

Related issues

• IMO it's a bit more nuanced than what the author portrays it as.
• In the UK Amazon have now raised the price of general shipping to be 2/3 the price of a months prime subscription.
• Credit where credit is due, critics claiming "[Apple device] is too expensive for something that just does [basic function]" have been pr...
• I like to buy music.
• Meet K-Claw.
• Fable is way too expensive for basic software stuff.