On Aug 3, 2011, at 12:19 PM, LuKreme wrote: > On Aug 2, 2011, at 19:02, Arno Hautala <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I doubt many software vendors are >> going to increase their distribution costs by replacing installation >> media with USB drives. > > USB thumb drives are cooperative with optical media. Sure,the unit cost is > higher but packaging and distribution costs are a lot lower, not to mention > storage. > > Also, a thumb drive can be written on site with the latest version.
I love the thumb drive I have for my Air. I wish more would do that. Plus the media is smaller to carry around and can't get scratched. Has anyone actually done a real cost analysis? I wonder how much it cost Apple to do that. --Larry_______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
