Know it all brings up a good point. I can see Toshiba taking a loss, but why would RCA do the same? RCA is most likely selling it for a profit-- unless Toshiba is subsidizing RCA, but then you have to ask yourself why would they do that?
I saw the third party who is guessing at the cost of the components is off. Toshiba probably negotiated a good deal with it suppliers. It's probably less costly than we believe.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Know it all brings up a good point. I can see Toshiba taking a loss, but why would RCA do the same? RCA is most likely selling it for a profit-- unless Toshiba is subsidizing RCA, but then you have to ask yourself why would they do that?
I saw the third party who is guessing at the cost of the components is off. Toshiba probably negotiated a good deal with it suppliers. It's probably less costly than we believe.