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Article #286Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem
From: SMS
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:41
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:41
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On 18/07/10 11:21 PM, Todd Allcock wrote: > At 18 Jul 2010 22:14:37 -0700 John Higdon wrote: >> In article<i20lpv$f7m$2@news.eternal-september.org>, >> sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com (David Kaye) wrote: >> >>> For the most part Microsoft has been a "natural monopoly", gaining > market >>> share mostly due to product and marketing excellence. >> >> Installing the OS on virtually every brand of PC sold by any retailer >> doesn't hurt, either. > > > True, but what options do OEMs have? Apple won't sell them OS X! ;) I know that Dell has (or used to have) a way to buy their machines without any OS and the price was reduced slightly. It actually probably cost them more to sell the machine without an OS. Any savings in licensing fees to Microsoft would be lost by the cost of having to have someone remove the OS from the machine which no doubt had it installed at the time of manufacturing. I know that OS companies, and not just Microsoft, used to have a pricing structure that made it much more financially attractive for the manufacturers to install the OS on every machine. This went back to the days of CP/M, MS DOS and DR DOS. Is it monopolistic for a company to say "if you install our OS on every computer you sell we'll sell it to you for $30 per copy, but if you only want to install it on some of the computers you sell then it'll cost you $40 a copy?"
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