Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem

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From: SMS
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:15

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On 19/07/10 1:36 PM, David Kaye wrote:
> John Navas<spamfilter1@navasgroup.com>  wrote:
>
>>
>> But still had to pay for Windows, the real crux of the issue.
>
> If they wanted to continue to be Windows vendors, yes.

No, Microsoft was always willing to sell to system vendors on a 
non-exclusive basis, you just paid more for every copy of the OS. You 
would have to have a very unique customer base for it to be financially 
advantageous to not install Windows on every machine.

Microsoft also gave discounts if your hardware platform was WHQL 
certified, in their effort to make the software/hardware platforms more 
stable and with sufficient performance. It was not required, but you got 
a big discount for it. They eventually allowed self-certification, but 
in the beginning you had to send them multiple units of each system for 
certification, and they kept them.

> By the same token, companies such as Pepsi have exclusive contracts with
> restaurants that they can no longer sell Pepsi if they sell Coke.  Nobody's
> gotten up in arms over that.

They can still sell Pepsi, but they lose the preferential pricing of the 
exclusive agreement. There are certainly places that sell both, though 
for fountain drinks I've only seen both products at places like AM/PM. 
Sure wish Costco had not gone over to the dark side at their snack bar, 
but at least they still sell MC in a GB (Mexican Coke in a Glass Bottle).

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