Comment This just boggles my mind.... (Score 1) 2950
...How can anybody worry about Apple's hardware sales?
Hardware is commodity future landfill fodder with razor thin, death spiral profit margins. Apple has an OS that people actually want and are willing to pay for, and the ridiculously overpriced, underpowered hardware is what blocks people with a sensible distaste for being ripped off from actually buying it. The answer is so obvious that even an MBA could get it right--
--Yet Apple's solution isn't to start selling OS X to the masses on a 13 cent CD or 0.13 cent download, but to protect a margin which was built on suckers who don't understand economies of scale.
[Ducks]
Hardware is commodity future landfill fodder with razor thin, death spiral profit margins. Apple has an OS that people actually want and are willing to pay for, and the ridiculously overpriced, underpowered hardware is what blocks people with a sensible distaste for being ripped off from actually buying it. The answer is so obvious that even an MBA could get it right--
--Yet Apple's solution isn't to start selling OS X to the masses on a 13 cent CD or 0.13 cent download, but to protect a margin which was built on suckers who don't understand economies of scale.
[Ducks]
