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Idle observation: The argument that avoiding Windows would lower the cost since there is no license cost to pay Microsoft seems flawed in practice. The psychol
by noss 17y ago
Idle observation: The argument that avoiding Windows would lower the cost since there is no license cost to pay Microsoft seems flawed in practice. The psychology does not work in favour of it.
It would be interesting to instead see a strategy where it costs more just because it is not an old boring Windows system, but a cool modern Android system on it. Actually charge the customer slightly more. Signal that "this is value added, it is the premium version".
Of course, then Android needs to meet those expectations and be awesome.
- netsp 17y agoExactly. I don't expect any wins to come because just Linux is cheaper. It needs to be better or easier in some ways. Better battery life. More complete out of the box. Something like that. It can if it makes the net books cheaper by running on cheaper hardware, but RAM isn't very expensive.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoAnd this shouldn't be hard because Microsoft enforces maximum specs on the XP machines leaving a gap in the market for "top-end netbooks" which people seem to think is an oxymoron. I'm very much in the market for an ARM-based, linux netbook with a Pixel Qi screen. I think it would blow the Kindle out the water as an e-book reader (hardware-wise, access to content not so much).