|> > They charge $2000 for a computer that costs $400 to make. It sounds
|> > like they make a lot more money on their hardware than software.
|>
|> This is only blatantly obvious, since every computer manufacturing
|> company in the world does it.
|>
|> Sure, once you have the schematics and the parts list, the machine is
|> actually quite cheap. But a lot of research and development goes into
|> getting these two things.
|>
|> Let's not forget to mention that the consumer also has to pay for the
|> marketing of the product, and probably a half-dozen other things I'm
|> forgetting to mention.
|>
Well I once heard that it coust around $800 bucks to make a sun. They sell them for 10,000. Sounds like a major mark up.
However the main problem with proting GNU stuff to the mac is that most of them will require major rewrites. They are not designed around an event driven architechure. The ones that have been ported generally require MPW which simulates a lot of unix calls.
