Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:29:27 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot@gmail.com>, Manfred Usselmann <usselmann.m@icg-online.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and hardware?? Message-ID: <20081118202647.D85658@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20081118163419.GD28439@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <7f8a05a80811171609h2f5742cfo2ae003415a99e45f@mail.gmail.com> <20081118121634.S84157@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081118123147.GA96005@ei.bzerk.org> <94136a2c0811180444n51cae14bg70654bc7b93445f8@mail.gmail.com> <20081118141648.M84450@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081118154009.2e3be393.usselmann.m@icg-online.de> <20081118154446.H84809@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081118163419.GD28439@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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>> so why it have a much smaller market share? > > Because MS wrote restrictive contracts with companies trying to > sell PCs saying that if they wanted to put MS on any of their Apple produces it's own computers. Actually a branded PCs now. what a problem? the problem is that Apple works the same way as Commodore 20-15 years ago. Trying to get prices as high as possible, instead of looking in future. Exactly what apple do now - selling ordinary PC (just more stylish cases) 2-3 times more expensive. if Apple computers would be similarly prices or slightly higher, then they could really compete.
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