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Why is it great? Apple is worse than MS in so many other ways. In a few years you are going to see Apple being the person that everyone hates. Now, people seem
by zitterbewegung 14y ago
Why is it great? Apple is worse than MS in so many other ways. In a few years you are going to see Apple being the person that everyone hates. Now, people seem to like it.
- annon 14y agoBecause Apple's cost cutting has increased competition. Increased competition is usually better for consumers.
- jmduke 14y agoWhile I agree that increased competition is better for consumers, Apple hasn't cut costs for the consumers -- they've merely absorbed the cost of the OS into their hardware.
- annon 14y agoIf the average price of hardware hasn't gone up, which it hasn't, then they have cut costs for consumers. Regardless of where they handle the accounting on their end, cost of ownership has gone down.
- SpikeDad 14y agoEh? Next you'll be telling us W8 is going to be the nail in the coffin of Appple? There's NO question that the W8 upgrade pricing is a DIRECT result of Apple's usual $40 upgrade pricing. BTW: Lets see how easy it is to update WXP to W8 - a single click in the Microsoft Store?
- majorlazer 14y agoHow is it a "DIRECT result of Apple's usual $40 upgrade pricing" if the two OSes don't even run on the same hardware? A user won't be purchasing a Mac because his OS upgrade cost is $60 more (or however much Windows upgrades originally cost). Microsoft knows that people will have little incentive to migrate from Win7 to Win8, so they are doing all they can to encourage that. This is not a response to Apple's pricing structure.
- gte910h 14y ago>if the two OSes don't even run on the same hardware Macs are some of the best windows laptops out there. Tons of places buy MBPs then install windows.