>but if you capture the low-income-but-tired-of-the-RAZR market (hi, high school and college market), then you more or less have captured the entire direction o

>but if you capture the low-income-but-tired-of-the-RAZR market (hi, high school and college market), then you more or less have captured the entire direction of the market. See, apple tried that. when I was school in the 90s, apple owned the (primary school) campus computer lab market... and really, nothing else. As far as I can tell, it didn't help them much at all, other than to get a generation of people thinking of apple as slow, obsolete crap (which is as much a result of the school district keeping them around too long as anything else.) edit: On the other hand, come to think of it, OS-x started getting real popular around the time most people my age started earning enough money to pay for a mac, so maybe I'm wrong and the policy was a resounding success? (I mean, I was born in '80, and as I've had a 'real job' since '97 or so because I skipped college to play in the .com boom, I sometimes forget that most people don't start earning money until their mid 20s.)