businessweek.com - 4/22/2009
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amazon.com - 4/30/2009
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amazon.com —
For anyone who has recently sent personal documents to your
Kindle, we'd like to let you know about some updates to...
our Personal Document Service (via Whispernet). Starting May 4, in addition to the existing list of ...
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Kindle Personal Documents
dvice.com - 4/23/2009
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dvice.com —
From GPSes to synthetic rabbits , more and
more gadgets are being blessed with the ability to...
speak. Two prominent examples from recent weeks are the Amazon Kindle 2 and Apple's latest iPod Shuffle . Can their computery speech pass for human? We ...
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Talking Gadget Theater: Blade Runner, starring the ...
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iSuppli revela custo de fabricação do Kindle 2: US$185
MacMagazine —
... 3G ilimitada embutida no aparelho.
É bom notar que o Whispernet (Sprint EVDO) não significa tanto assim para a rede da operadora, visto que o download de eBooks é bem leve — ainda mais se levarmos em consideração que já estamos no mundo dos downloads de mídias digitais, envolvendo músicas, filmes e programas de TV super pesados.
No mercado, o Kindle 2 é comercializado por US$360, ou seja, sua fabricação custa 52% do seu preço no varejo.
[Via: BusinessWeek.] ...
Amazon Kindle 2 Gets Teardown Treatment
Gearlog —
... Amazon's wildly popular Kindle 2 got a good old fashioned teardown from the folks at market research firm iSuppli. According to the organization, the device costs $185.49 to manufacture--or about 52-percent of its manufacture suggested retail price. ...
The $350 Kindle 2 costs only $185 to build
CrunchGear —
The good folks at iSuppli took it upon themselves to rip apart the Amazon Kindle 2. Great, right? What’s not great is knowing how much of a premium you’re paying for the device; ignorance is bliss here. The Kindle 2, for which Amazon wants $359, costs approximately $185 to build. That is, when you take all the Kindle’s parts and add them together, you get a total of $185. So where does the extra $174 come from?
Well, assuming Amazon is in the business of making monkey, some of that “left over” money is profit. Then you’d need ...
The True Cost of Kindle 2
Mobility Site —
... to be exact $359,
A teardown analysis of the Kindle 2 by market research firm iSuppli estimates the cost to build the device at $185.49, or about 52% of its retail price of $359. ISuppli takes apart consumer electronics to identify the manufacturer’s suppliers and estimate the cost of the device’s components, providing a rough idea of the profit margin for each unit sold. Amazon declined to comment on iSuppli’s analysis.
Via: BusinessWeek
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