- Mem,
You may be right. But these things are actually amazing pieces of technology at a dirt cheap price. I once paid $900 for a 52mb hard drive and thought it was wonderful! I think we are all getting a bit jaded.
I wonder if Steve saw the finished product, was underwelmed, and said. "OK. we'll sell it cheap and that'll make up for the meh factor."?
I bet they had focus groups where they talked about how much you would spend on it. To keep it cheap they must have decided to skimp on the memory. As a Kindle replacement it's great, but I don't want to read books on a computer screen.