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So here’s the projected retail price of a 256GB SSD with fast flash inside it

What this tells you/me is that the same SSD Crucial drive I bought from Amazon in February 2013 will drop in Retail Price to $18-40.   Remember, since you’ve read the other 3 articles, this means you can now take this super fast flash memory and drop it into a digital camera (or mobilephone or tablet) for much less than this. And if you are Apple, if you charge more tha $18-40, you can increase your margin as well.  If the margin on flash memory in this case is between 30-50%, with this retail pricing, then increasing the price of your product by 40-200 bucks (as some fruit company does) gets you a huge margin.

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