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From: sasaki@harvard.ARPA (Marty Sasaki)
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Subject: Re: Programmability cost
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 18:52:53 EST
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> > I have been meaning to ask this one for a while now:  why is it that there
> > is a $100 difference between two seemingly identical CD players which differ
> > only in their respective degree of programmability?
> 
> Because that's what people are willing to pay for the feature.

A good example of this is telephones. If you compare the cost of a
rotary AT&T telephone with a touch-tone telephone you will see that the
touch-tone is more expensive, even though rotary phones are more
expensive to make. Touch tone service is cheaper as well. You pay more
because people are willing to pay more.
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