>So, for the sake of this particular message, let's put aside the >talk of wide choices in the make and model of the machine and focus >instead purely on the OS. Are the "buyers" who are being targeted in >any ads for any computer making their choices based upon the OS or >based primarily upon the machine? If prices for Windows computers >were up there with Macintosh prices, would sales of Windows machines >decline? Or, if prices for Macs fell to those of most PCs, would >Windows users move to the Mac OS?
That is a classic microeconomic calculation. The answer is yes. And if you have a value for the price elasticity of computers you could even calculate by how much the numbers would shift. My intuition is that it would be a big number, but then us elitist MFBs would have to find a different brand for ourselves. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
