From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells.com)
Date: Wed Oct 06 2004 - 14:05:39 PDT
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 03:33:43PM -0400, Sunder wrote:
> To elaborate:
>
> Yes, but that encryption isn't there to protect your data, it's there to
> protect media such as songs from you making multiple copies of it. i.e.
> evil DRM. This makes SD more expensive just to support the DRM.
Right. Even if you're not using DRM with your newton data, the card
manufacturer had to license the technology to support it as part of the
standard of "being an SD stadard device" and that cost is built into the
price for the SD card.
> Yes, CF is larger, but, that just makes it possible to implement cards
> other than storage - i.e. 802.11b NIC's, modems, GPS devices, etc. Makes
> SD more expensive just because it's smaller.
Card housings get bigger economies of scale too. It's a tiny factor, but
yuan mount up if you get save a few on a box of parts.
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