Kindle 2 Tear-Down Reveals Price of Components

adeelarshad82 writes "Amazon's wildly popular Kindle 2 got a good old fashioned tear-down from the folks at market research firm iSuppli. According to the organization, the Kindle 2's manufacturing cost is almost half as much as its retail price."

No kidding.

[JCSoRocks]

This. Just. In. There's a markup on retail goods! Also, the sky is generally blue and you need oxygen to live.

Re:And you are surprised?

[Zordak]

The first was the Dreamcast, which catered

Wow, I guess I'm just an old fogie. Back in my day, we had the SMS and then the Genesis, and neither of those were capable of serving food. They just played video games.