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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!Celestial.COM!bill
- From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
- Subject: Re: "official" FSF position on apple
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:37:37 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.183737.5433@Celestial.COM>
- References: <1992Sep15.051438.28757@uwm.edu> <frain.716570605@depot.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu>
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- In <frain.716570605@depot.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu> frain@cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain) writes:
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- :anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
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- :> 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.
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- :This is only blatantly obvious, since every computer manufacturing
- :company in the world does it.
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- This is a normal ratio for any manufactured product. The retail
- price is generally 5 times the cost to manufacture. I believe the
- PC computer industry is generally less than this because of
- extreme competition and low margins (and this explains why so
- many retailers go out of business). Charles Tandy put it simply.
- ``If you don't have the gross margin going in, you won't have any
- profit coming out.''.
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- Bill
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- SPEED COSTS MONEY -- HOW FAST DO YOU WANT TO GO?
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