Am 08.03.2012 10:31, schrieb Invisible:

> So... why didn't they just make the 4GB drives to start with? Why did
> they have to start by making 64MB drives, and then starting to make
> 128MB drives, and then moving on to 256MB drives, and so forth? Why
> couldn't they just go directly to 4GB? What enables them to make those
> today but prevented them from making them back then?
>
> Why do you have to design, test, manufacture and sell a 64MB drive
> before you can attempt to make a 128MB one? How does the former help you
> do the latter? Why can't you just jump straight to 4GB? (Or perhaps even
> more than that?)
>
> I can't think of any /technical/ reason. (Besides "that's how it's
> done".) The only rational reason I can think of is that if you keep
> putting out slightly better devices year after year, people are going to
> keep upgrading their stuff, and that gives you income. If you just went
> straight out and sold the best possible device, then once everyone has
> got one, you'd have nothing new to sell to them, and you'd have no money.

Oh, Andy... *Sigh*

How about... sheer device size? You know, last time I heard, you need 
transistors for flash memory cells, and you need silicon real estate for 
transistors. I guess you /did/ hear about Moore's Law some time?

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