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Its all about perspective.

I was one of the first to buy a F80. I was not working at the time that I heard it at HH show, but when I got my first salary in a temp job, it went on an F80.

So far its cost me less than what a daily Starbucks and a newspaper would have. Yet I will get enjoyment daily from it and will do so for many years to come. And unlike alternatives, I can quite happily listen to it for hours on end - I helped a fellow garden designer for a while who had a Bose Wave Radio in her office and it was not something that I could have listened to all day. So even though under my circumstances it may have looked extravagant, I don't regret it one bit.

The danger that I see with the F80 is M having to expand to keep up with production, which is possibly what they have done and may well be where some of the redundancies will first hit.

It can't be easy trying to achieve 100% utilisation of a production line - and I personally think that making the F80 cheaper may well bring in more sales, but they would be more volatile and less easy to predict numbers.

I'm also not sure of the worth of putting a dock inside a F80 replacement. As well as probably having to compromise on placement (due to the composite construction of the unit), you are totally in the hands of a third party as to what you can do with the Fxx and a future change could make the Fxx useless - this is less of an issue with a separate dock unit. My iPod dock in the car is useless with my iPhone - but at least its only a �100 accessory and not a �20000 car.