begin quoting Alan as of Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:20:06PM -0700: > Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: [snip] > >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. > > heh, have you priced an iPod? > Not to disparage Apple, but to suggest they don't milk their customers > as much as the next guy is just plain silly.
What part of 'best perceived value' didn't make sense? > > 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. > > That has more to do with the competition in the x86 market than it does > with the hardware. If you are overpriced by $10 in the x86 market, you lose. > Apple, well, they don't have that problem, since they are (effectively) > the only players in the PowerPC market. Which is why they can spend a little extra money on good engineering instead of cost-reduction. This is not a bad thing. -Stewart "'Reasonable' cost is not the same thing as 'cheap'." Stremler
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