I don't get why they do stuff like this.
And they charge hundreds more just for the 512-1TB jump? Ridiculous.
I don't think they look at it like that. There's two separate topics, if I had to guess there is somewhat of a shortage on ram and they decided to go for 8/12GB and add a feature to use some SSD space to expand it, hoping that in real world use it won't matter (probably true). Then the pricing department does their research and see what people would pay for what and figure that someone who's spending the max doesn't care about the extra 100 etc..
Btw the 1TB sold out first.
Just as taking out the SD card slot makes people upset but yet everyone is still buying them i.e. Samsung is making a killing, anything else that can get them more money..