Yes but if you mount a fragile component on to a major critical
component and only sell them as a spare part as a complete module at
half the price of a new camera, someone's going to say $600 plus $300
labour? I'll just get a new one for $1100." Basically you've ramped
up the cost of a $25 part into a new sale. I think we saw this
problem with the flexible circuit in the OM4 - replaceable but hardly
worth it.
It's the rough equivalent of finding that your car's water pump or
oil pump has failed, being told that it's an integral part of the
engine block (welded to it) and so you'll have to replace the whole
engine.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 28/01/2008, at 6:05 AM, Dan Mitchell wrote:
> Could this also be to keep body size down, though? The amount of
> room
> taken up by a card reader mounted directly on the board will be a lot
> smaller than card reader -> socket -> connector -> cable ->
> connector ->
> socket on the board, though the intermediate cable makes things much
> easier to repair -- even just mounting the card reader on a socket
> directly on the board still requires more room because of the extra
> connectors.
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