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From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Optical Disk price change
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Date: 14 Oct 90 22:55:02 GMT
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In article <72100012@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>The optical disk medium price has gone from something like $75 retail to
>$149 retail.  Does anyone know why?  

My understanding is that the former $50 price for optical media was a
subsidized price, in the hope that the massive popularity of this
technology would cause massive production that would allow much lower
prices.

This massive popularity failed to materialize, and since NeXT has
caved in to the repeated demands for more standard disk technology,
they are no longer willing to subsidize the price of optical media.

In other words, $150/disc is the fair, unsubsidized price for optical
media.

It doesn't take a crystal ball to see that this technology is on the
way out.

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