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- From: chughes@maths.tcd.ie (Conrad Hughes)
- Subject: Re: That 1000 pound sampling card
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.141717.1881@maths.tcd.ie>
- Keywords: Rip off, 16 bit 44.1 kHz sampling, SCSI
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- References: <1jvbkhINNc7v@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.113216.8261@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:17:17 GMT
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- MJW19@phx.cam.ac.uk writes:
-
- >Yes, they are. But let me explain *why*. Say you design a sampler for the PC.
- >(you are running your own business). You may expect to sell N-thousand units.
- >So you get the boards mass-produced, flow-soldered etc. You put an $M profit
- >margin on and earn $MxN. Now consider you design it for the archimedes. You can
- >expect to sell say N-hundred units. This means they cost more to make. Plus to
- >make the same living as the PC person your markup needs to be 10x bigger.
- Last figures I heard, there were a few hundred thousand Archimedes
- out there and more than a few tens of millions of PCs, so the margin
- is even worse - the Arc manufacturer can only expect a market size
- perhaps a hundredth that of a PC manufacturer..
-
- Those figures are probably way out of date; if anyone has up-to-date
- info I'd be interested to see it..
-
- Conrad
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