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frain@cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain) writes:
|anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
|
|> They charge $2000 for a computer that costs $400 to make.  It sounds
|> like they make a lot more money on their hardware than software.
|
|This is only blatantly obvious, since every computer manufacturing
|company in the world does it.
|
|Sure, once you have the schematics and the parts list, the machine is
|actually quite cheap.  But a lot of research and development goes into
|getting these two things.

And, of course, this is why clones are so cheap.  The designs are "out
there" and since the machine has had very little architectural changes
in the past N years, the R&D costs are pretty much driven away.  Now
that development costs are negligent, they can make machines for cheap
using their existing designs.

I am in full support of what Jerry just said.  So to the FSFers that want
to claim Apple's making a killing off their machines, check out other
companies also.  They aren't very different.

-Brent
bpb9204@tamsun.tamu.edu