One step at a time.

I'm fairly certain there are other aspects to this equation you are missing. If there is cost savings to be made without dropping quality and yields, these companies would be way, way ahead of you. I'm guessing there are a bunch of other hidden costs associated with transportation and regional taxation that come into…

WP7 apps? What are those?

"Sell Your Book in the iBookstore and Apple Won’t Let You Sell It Anywhere Else."

"Personally, I wish this had been something Amazon would have come up with. They understand creating accessible platforms. I mean, where CAN'T you access their content?"

30% of the cost is in manufacturing because the cost is so low. That's not a fixed percentage; that's based on the manufacturing coming from extremely cheap labor.

"But the Samsung trackpad was fine, and the Lenovo was pretty decent."

"I doubt that IPhone sales will drop to 0 if the entry cost went from $200 to $250 with a 2 year contract."

"It's also been my experience that the users of high end Android devices tend to be the most savvy mobile users."

My point is that they're small relative to the capabilities of a 7 MP camera. MPs are not a useful metric for anyone but advertisers or people who don't know any better.

Can "activate" multiple books and search for common words and phrases in them all at once?

The point isn't to simply make your textbook digital (which has already existed for years). The point is to make these digital versions more useful than the print versions by harnessing the advantages of a digital platform, which had yet to be done, until now.

Instagram pictures are small, so a megapixel requirement would be pointless. This article referred to quality, which is more accurately measured in sensor size first, lens quality second.

Probably the millions of users who enjoy it?

Probably because 1280 x 720 is an odd size for tablets. Believe it or not, the iPad's ratio is right where it should be for a tablet.

"I think that creating the first "personal" computer gives the guy some credibility, no?"

"These are simple customers, people of the feature phone, the common clay of the new user groups."

Yep, and you'll find the cost of products rise just as sharply. And then those jobs will disappear as those products sit on shelves, unsold.

Um, not really, since within the episode it was made clear that Apple was already doing this. The difference between pre-episode and post-episode Apple was that they weren't giving some of this info to you. Which is an inconsequential difference, since, what are any of us going to do with this? Work the picket line in…

A lot of the reviews I have read on these products very clearly indicate otherwise. But if you're comfortable with the performance, that's all that matters.