Not only MS. Any product whose cost ofd production is trivial compared to selling price.
Look at Coke... it's 99+% water. In some places it sells for $2/pint. -John ============== > > Hmmm, sounds like the Microsoft model. > > What did you expect for $100? > > > On 12/31/2010 12:49 PM, J. Forster wrote: >>> Well, I won't rant back at you, Dick, but your expectations are way off >>> base. GPS cartographers have to designate billions (yes, billions) of >>> addresses and the fact that they miss a few scarcely justifies a >>> backhand >>> brushoff as "shoddy work." >> >> Look at it another way: >> >> They are producing one product for 10s of millions of customers. The >> reproduction costs are trivial, so they have hundreds of millions of >> dollars to get one product right! >> >>> Can you have a product of this size and complexity that is completely >>> error free. No. No matter how hard you try, the answer remains...no. >>> (References on stochastic processes available on request.) >>> >>> Can you have a product with* fewer* errors? Of course. Can you have >>> it >>> for eighty bucks. Nope. >> >> The $80 is for one copy. Try near a $1,000,000,000 for the digital map >> of >> the USA. >> >>> Be a good capitalist and take your choice. >> >> >> -John >> > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
