Mike Radchenko
US
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(Nov 10, 2009 - 4:14 PM)
Since I didn't make my own hardware...I would call myself a computer manufacturer, which is what all those companies you listed are...one of them just happens to charge a whole lot more for their computers.
(Nov 10, 2009 - 3:59 PM)
The case may be well designed, but none of the hardware inside that case is made by apple. You're saying that you're basically paying a premium to have a nice case with a very large profit margin to make the price of OSX look attractive.
I just don't see how you can say Apple is a hardware company if they don't make any hardware. If I took an Intel I7-920, put it in a box (maybe I even designed a nice looking box to put it in), resold it to you for 4 times what I paid for it, can I be a hardware company too?
(Nov 10, 2009 - 3:25 PM)
That doesn't make them a hardware company...they're a packaging/marketing/reselling company...NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, ATI, those are hardware companies. Apple just takes other people hardware, packages it in a nice box, slaps OSX on it, puts an inflated price on the package, markets and sells the result.
It's a good business model, they make a lot of money doing it. But that doesn't make them a "hardware company".
(Nov 10, 2009 - 2:55 PM)
How exactly is apple a hardware company? What "Apple hardware" is inside of mac pro?
(Nov 4, 2009 - 12:24 PM)
The reason it's not relevant that ig ot slower is because nobody REALLY notices...I personally can't tell if my browser loaded a site in 300 milliseconds or 400 milliseconds...and if it loaded it in 400 instead of 300, I really don't care. The amount of time we're talking here is so trivial it's pointless to discuss. If we were talking about waiting 10 seconds instead of 2 seconds then I can see a problem.