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IIRC they get something like $15 for each Windows Phone OEM license and something like $50 for each full Windows OEM license. That's probably a big part of the
by contextfree 16y ago
IIRC they get something like $15 for each Windows Phone OEM license and something like $50 for each full Windows OEM license. That's probably a big part of the reason they'd prefer to stick with full Windows in as many markets as possible.
- rbanffy 16y agoI think it's important to note they could sell more than 3x more $15 licenses than $50 licenses. You have a potential success with a low margin and certain doom with a high margin. Which one would you choose?
- cstross 16y agoApple: 12% of the total personal computer market in the USA. 92% of the high-end (over $999) personal computer market, which is around 10% of the total. If you're going to have 10% of the market, which would you rather have -- the bottom 10% or the top 10%? (I'll concede your point about the choice between potential success/certain doom for Microsoft in the tablet field, but Microsoft obviously doesn't see it that way: they see it as a choice between success and success, and obviously they want the more lucrative version.)
- rbanffy 16y ago> they see it as a choice between success and success And that is absolutely baffling. It will be studied for decades after Microsoft is gone and be the ground upon countless doctoral theses are built.
- cstross 16y agoTwo words: "corporate groupthink". Microsoft won't be the first huge company to succumb as a result of adhering to the very outlook that made them big in the first place. (Anyone else remember IBM in the run-up to 1994?)