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- From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
- Subject: Re: IBM screws U again
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.110917.26099@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
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- References: <1992Dec16.135229.4538@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 11:09:17 GMT
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- Jeff Urlwin (jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU) wrote:
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- : >In <1992Dec14.194153.8726@ultb.isc.rit.edu> jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
- : >>The Radius XGA-2 card will RETAIL (not "List") for $499 because IBM wants
- : >>to bleed Radius for licensing fees. Thus, IBM screws over Radius, who
- : >>will lose a lot of sales (me, for one), the typical OS/2 customer who
- : >>wants a faster system, and themselves all at once.
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- : Don't forget that Radius will be marketting this in Canada and Europe. I
- : wonder how much of the cost to meet standards other than FCC will be
- : passed on to U.S. customers?
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- given the price of hardware and especially software in europe when compared
- to the USA the question we ask is how much do non-USA customers subsidies
- the USA. or, how much did european OS/2 buyers subsidise the free OS/2 v1
- upgrade offer in the US (i gather it didn't apply in europe)
-
- if the retail price is $499 in the US then we would normally expect to
- see a retail price of #499 by the usual rule of swapping # for $ which
- translates back to around $750
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