>
> Tom, actual market price is not only based on production cost (read here
> lots of things, as quantity, production site, general expenses), but on
> "what the customer is willing to pay". If what the market wants to pay
> doesn't generate producer's profit, it will not go to the market, except
> if they are alone in the market, then they fix the price.  Unfortunately
> I am forced to say that a $80 adapter is a gross stealing.  You can't
> find a general purpose 8 bits microcontroller costing $80, why? because
> it will not sell when the market average price is around $4.
>

I don't see this as stealing at all.  No one is forced to buy these
adaptors.  The time to create my own adaptor for programming chips would be
much more expensive than the cost of the Emulation Tech. parts.  The price
isn't a function of their costs so much as a function of the value to me.
While they are pricey, I don't see them as being unreasonably so.

The great thing about our system is that you can create your own adaptor,
undercut their prices, dominate the market, and make lots of money.

Or maybe not.

Mark Walsh