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Re:Nexus Q - The world's first social streaming media player by pangram on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @05:17PM (#4169285)
It's manufactured (mostly) in the United States, which is probably pushing up the price some.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/technology/google-and-othe...

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Re:Nexus Q - The world's first social streaming media player by jfoutz on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @05:54PM (#4169422)
Maybe, but is assembly labor really that large of a fraction of the total cost?

If us labor is 20x the expense of the alternative ($0.60 vs $12.00/hour) you'd have 16 hours of hand assembly to account for that price difference. That seems implausible to me. However, i've never manufactured stuff, so what do i know.

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