On Jun 6, 2006, at 6:47 AM, Tim Newsham wrote:
If you had a choice to buy gas for $3.35/gallon right down the
street on King Street or drive to Millilani (if you live in town)
and pay $3.09/gallon, where would you most like fuel up? A large
majority would go to the more expensive station out of convenience.
I think you'll find they're "better off" paying the $3.35/gallon
at the local station.
You've just proved the validity of his analogy. Now compute the
cost of installing your own codec versus buying a package with the
codec installed. Be sure to include the value of your time. You
definitely have to "drive" a lot further when you do it yourself.
I understood where he was driving, but his analogy was flawed. Its
not convenience that keeps people from driving to Mililani or Ewa to
fill-up, and they're not paying for that convenience in his example,
but they are when they buy Linspire or Minerva, or... Vista.
Jim
