> Most usually vice-versa. To give the deeper pocket business an > advantage > over its competition - at least until they go away.
That must explain iLife. Is this why Comcast is tempting people to get their phone service with an intro price instead of the much larger and better-known Verizon phone service? The nice people at Amazon have better prices on many items than do Best Buy and other larger retailers, yet with free shipping. Why is that? > > Sorry everyone; no more Tivo with your Dish network. No more free > > toothbrushes with toothpaste. It's for your own good. > > Somehow I wish I could still live in that kind of happy, blissful > world. > Where businesses really give stuff away for free and consumers have > zero > part in paying for it. Even my kids stopped believing in that around 5 > or 6 > as I taught them to figure out ads and commercials. Oh my gosh, the last hotel I stayed at provided high speed internet at no additional cost. The one down the street charged extra for that and the room rate was about the same. Do I owe the first one money for this violation of the non-blissful world? My cell phone carrier doesn't charge me more for long distance calls. Should I tell them to stop? ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
