haremlover wrote:The difference is mass production and what can be printed. If you have a look at the latest video posted by Cloud Climax showing the DS doll factory you'll see that so much is labour intensive, art, testing of tightness of joints, fitting things together and a whole load of stuff that's very different indeed from the production of computers with printed things.
My point was simple: 30 years ago, computers cost as much as cars. Today, you can buy a better, smaller, more powerful computer at Walmart for a few hundred dollars. The big reason computers were expensive when they first came out was to recover "research and development" costs. It's that way with any product, whether it be computers, pharmaceuticals, robotics, HDTV, etc.
There is really no difference between printing a circuit board and filling a mold. Both are simple procedures. Picking oranges in the groves or harvesting lettuce in the fields is labor intensive, too; however, their prices at the market don't reflect that. If it did, no one could afford produce.
I am not debating the quality that goes into the Jinsan dolls; I am sure they are high quality dolls, so please don't take offense at my suggestions and comments regarding skeletal designs. However, as time goes on, you will see design changes that will resemble those in the medical/robotic field implemented in future models. It's inevitable; design changes came with other products and along with those changes came lower prices.
