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Article #230Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem
From: SMS
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:02
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:02
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On 19/07/10 4:29 PM, David Kaye wrote: > 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. But it isn't required to happen at the assembly line for each individual computer anymore. For mass market machines the disk drives are shipped to the assembly line with the disk image already present. It's not like in the past where each drive had to be loaded at the time the system is manufactured. > Thus, it's easier and faster to sell > a computer without Windows than with it, since they only need to install a > blank HD. And they used to just ship a start-up CD and the end user installed the OS. That resulted in lost profit from loading the drive with all the shovelware trial versions.
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