On 11/25/09, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > You can get away with squeezing money out of customers this way only > > as long as each customer is unaware of others being squeezed the same > > way. At that point the bad P.R. makes the costs outweigh the benefits. > > > > I'd guess it's much ado about nothing. I haven't seen it reported anywhere > except here, and average consumers don't comb the web searching for mini > scandals. Apple market share has increased for 16 of the last 17 quarters. > I'd bet they go to 17 of 18. Apparently, they haven't been pissing too many > people off. However, if this does turn out to be something more than a blip, > they'll have to address it. They seem to be capable of good market decisions.
You might be surprised at just how much noise the Consumerist can make. -- Scott Loveless Cigarette-free since December 14th, 2008 http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

