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My guess is that it's related to supply constraints. They sold 14 million of them last year. That's a lot of chips. Is their RAM special in some way that might
by guywithabike 16y ago
My guess is that it's related to supply constraints. They sold 14 million of them last year. That's a lot of chips.
Is their RAM special in some way that might make it a supply constraint big enough to warrant limiting the memory in the iPad so much?
- aperiodic 16y agoI doubt supply constraints are an issue. They're the single largest purchaser of flash memory in the world[1]. I imagine manufacturers would be bending over backwards for them, since their orders must all be quite large. [1]:http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/10/21/macbook.future.cnet/ http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/10/21/macboo...
- silvestrov 16y agoI think they did everything to get the price down to $499 - including removing camera and reducing RAM. I'm guessing they thought that the $499 price point was required to make iPad a hit. $499 is a very symbolic price.