On Friday, July 07, 2006 5:47 AM GMT, Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can see where you're coming from, but from my point in view why > would > you sell a piece of plastic with ink in it that cost the same amount > as > something that is made up of wires and circuitry boards? The idea of > material and size doesn't match up to the price. If you would analyze > the whole scenario, why aren't they selling seats for cars at $23,000 > which is what a car goes for? This whole scenario was on the news one > time. They were having people who were ticked at the prices on the > news. > They wound up selling the generic brands but even those prices were > raised to make up for the money that they lost (Seems like a > coincidence > to me for microsoft, if you lose money somewhere, jack up the price on > the cheap stuff to make up for it.) I think the whole idea of selling > a > printer cartridge at the same amount as a printer doesn't make sense. > I > think they make the most important parts extremely expensive so that > we'll have to buy them otherwise we won't be able to use the second > most > expensive. That's like selling a DVD for the same amount as the burner > itself. Or shall we say, in my case, an AMD processor for my computer > at > 1.5ghz would cost almost the same amount as my computer itself. Which > brings me back to the amount and prices not matching. You have a 3inch > by 3inch circuitry board that costs the same amount as something that > is 17 inch x 23 inch? Looks like somebody's making allot of money > conveniently. > Apparently you don't know much about printers, or how they work. Do you really think that a print head with nozzels that are in the tenths of the width of a human hair, let alone the reminder of the printer body costs under $100 to make??? > But in any ways, like you said, to keep this on topic, I think that > Linux would definitely beat Windows by a long shot because of Windows' > errors. We have been hearing this statement for ages now. Apple was supposed to be gone a decade and a half ago. AMD was supposed to go sieze over four years ago. So many Canon fanboys predicted that Nikon would go out of business within a few years after Canon became the main player in the DSLR market. The list goes on and on listing companies that fanboys predicted should have gone out of business, yet they are still alive and kicking. Returning to the topic of Linux vs Windows. While Windows does indeed have numerous flaws in terms of security and stability, it compensates for that with ease of use. Everything under windows has a unique standard (whether that standard is the best or worst is another story). While your run of the mill distro is far more stable and secure than Windows, both out of the box, using Linux is still far from an easy task. There still arent unified standards, the GUIs are still developed based on a geeky point of view, rather than focusing on ease of usability, and lets face it, your average Joe doesnt want to think about whether to use KDE or Gnome for his desktop environment, whether to go with an rpm based or deb based package system, wether he/she should format their drive's partition to ext2/3 or raiserfs. Heck, the user will even have to decide how they should partition their drives, should they go with a flat filesystem relying on a single partition, or whether they need to have separate ones for /home and /usr. You want Linux to really break into mainstream computing, get the majority of distribution publishers/makers to agree on a single main standard Linux framework where there is a single and unique standard for every task that each and everyone of those publishers will adapt. Let the decision making burden be on the developers of the distro, not on the average end user who only cares to push the power button, wait a miniute or so, and then be able to check their email and browse the net without giving a rats ass as to how any of that is happening. Then, and only then, Linux will start to be adopted by the masses. Regards, IraqiGeek www.iraqigeek.com Murhy's Commerce Laws: To err is human, to forgive is not company policy. > Russell > > Davey wrote: > >> Russell wrote: >> >> [snip] >>> Why >>> is it that a printer carterage costs as much as the printer itself? >> >> This one is easy, it is the Gillette Principal of Business: >> "Give away the razors in order to sell the blades" >> >> which translates to: >> >> "Give away the printers in order to sell the ink cartridges" >> "Give away the computers in order to sell more service & software" >> (see "King Gillette" >> <http://www.school-for-champions.com/biographies/gillette.htm >> <http://www.school-for-champions.com/biographies/gillette.htm>> ) >> >> This principal doesn't always work. Texas Instruments tried this with >> the old >> TI-99/4a home computer system in the early '80s. After rebate the >> computer was >> very cheap. They thought they would control all software & hardware >> for the >> system & make a killing (the computer for $50 and the disk drive for >> $500). It >> almost killed them instead. >> >> To keep this on topic & give a modern Linux example: IBM, Redhat and >> Novelle >> essentially follow this principal with Linux. They basically give >> away the op >> sys to sell the op sys services. It is about the only way to make >> money on Linux >> (and the GPL). >> >> Sincerely, >> WarpDavey >> -- >> "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Ben >> Franklin >> > To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
