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

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From: David Kaye
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:29

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SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:

>You can look at it that way, or you can look at from the view that the 
>economies of scale that they gained by building mass quantities of PCs 
>with Windows installed resulted in lower prices than you would have paid 
>had they done a special build for you without the OS.

It's not economies of scale, though, it's marketing.  Unless there is some new 
way of writing software to HD that I don't know about, HDs have to receive 
copies of Windows the old-fashioned way.  Thus, it's easier and faster to sell 
a computer without Windows than with it, since they only need to install a 
blank HD.  

But it's in MS's interest to reduce the prices in order to pump up their 
market share, as long as the price does not drop below the cost of doing it.  
Then they'd get into anti-trust troubles.  I don't think anybody here has 
suggested that Windows was selling too cheaply, though...

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From: sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com (David Kaye)
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Subject: Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for
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