begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:53:58PM -0700: > On Tuesday 24 May 2005 03:44 pm, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: [snip] > > You can sell cheaper hardware (Apple is a hardware comany, right?) with > > higher profit margins. Higher profit margins = higher profits if you can > > keep the same number of units sold. > > You'll find that Apple doesn't seem all that interested in milking their > customers, as opposed to giving their customers the best perceived value > for dollar spent. It's a rare thing with computer companies. The more and > more we buy at work in x86-land (Dell, etc.), the crappier and crappier it > gets, as Dell tries harder and harder to squeeze more cash per unit.
I don't mind spending more than absolutely rock-bottom for an item if I feel that the company isn't trying to screw me over. I'll pay more for quality, as chasing the extremes tends to not be worth it (in my experience). Cheapest tools, food, cars, books.... not worth it in the long run. Especially when quality lasts longer. [snip] > With Apple, though, neither is the OS the vehicle for the hardware, or the > hardware the vehicle for the OS. It's a symbiotic system. The hardware > provides the best possible environment for the OS, and the OS the best > possible utilization of the hardware. As an old Amiga user, this sort of thinking makes perfect sense to me. :) > > This way you force the users to a hardware upgrade path. You don't want > > to be too greedy, otherwise people will flock to other OS's that wun on > > that platform (Linux, *BSD) that will support older systems. > > Each successive release of Mac OS X, from 10.0 to 10.3 (the latest I've > tried) has been incrementally _faster_ on my oldest machine, a 350MHz "Blue > & White" PowerMac G3. How that forces me into an upgrade cycle is beyond > me. Make the user happy, and they'll recommend it to friends and family. User loyalty isn't built up by 'cheapest', it's built up by percieved value and respect. [snip] -Stewart "The threat of Apple is that Aunt Tilly won't need Linux" Stremler
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