FFS, do you not understand the difference between OEM and Retail pricing?
And what is OEM pricing? You don't know do you? If you bothered to read the article it says: "As this article points out, OEM pricing for Windows varies by company and even by the type of processor being used in the computer. .
Since the TFS doesn't mention how much they actually cost and just gives the percentage increase (I wonder whyâ¦.) I had to RTFA.
The article says Windows 11 Home is $139 and Pro is $200 currently. A 10% increase would mean prices of $153 and $220..
Let's add a little more FUD to that article before you post it next time.
In the article it says Windows retail is $139 for Home and $200 for Pro. Math says the increase is $14-$19 for retail. I am not sure that tracks with your $2-$3 estimate.
What happens to the price that a customer pays when multiplying by a percent? What does that do for revenue / profit? Oh, it goes up without you doing any additional work that you were already doing.
1) The increase in costs is double to sometimes quadruple. If by "a percent" you mean 200 to 400%, you would be right. 2) Your assumption is manufacturers are still maintaining that 30% under these circumstances. Do you have the quarterly or annual filings broken down by devices? They may not be maintaining that 30% anymore.
They're an advertising company, not a hardware company.
That might be plausible if Google had not released phones, earbuds, and a watch at the same time in an event called "Made by Google 2026"
I know EEE very well, and yet publishing something in a store is very much not EEE. The Microsoft store provides no APIs to extend functionality, and has no capability in itself to extinguish any competition.
So software and media on MS Store is DRM free then? There is never a scenario where an online store shutdown will cause that media or software to be useless without an authentication server?
Virtually everyone who uses the phrase Embrace Extend Extinguish fails to understand there are very specific market conditions that need to exist for that strategy to work. For one, you can't do it on an open ecosystem, you can only do it on a closed one
And you are confusing what situations EEE is successful and what conditions MS has tried and continues to try.
You should be asking WHY these things just keep getting more expensive rather than accepting the premise that they are all ridiculously expensive but it's okay that this is ridiculously expensive because some other product from another manufacturer is moreso.
Well recently a certain product’s price doubled to quadrupled over the last year. We all know which product is to blame: labubus. That or RAM, SSD, GPU, etc have multiplied in prices because of AI. Who is to know?
The link makes it clear it wasn't a distress call, you are not obligated to respond to a non-distress call. It's the reason distress calls are treated as a separate class.
Please cite in the link where it said any of this. It does not. It is as detailed as linking the Constitution and saying that it does.
Ad Hominem does exist, but suggesting or outright saying that someone is too stupid to understand an argument is not ad hominem.
To review, I stated his link did not actually say what he claims it says. His response was not clarification of his claim but to claim I was too stupid/young to read.
You want to quibble that it was an ad hominem attack, go ahead.
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. -- Alan Perlis
