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by notahacker
1491 days ago
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It's entirely due to cost of manufacture (and the result that hard drives are mass market product with a lot of competiton) Here's a brand new sedan you could buy for under $5k during the same period.
https://blog.consumerguide.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/20... The sort of person that could afford to plonk $3k a few megabytes of storage without thinking about it too hard back then wasn't the sort of person that needs a payment plan to afford an iPhone today, it's the sort of person who's never needed to save for a new car. |
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