Palm Computing's application of the razors and blades strategy appears to only have one problem: they don't sell the blades. Compare, of course, to Apple's strategy, where they sell razors, blades, and shaving foam, at sky-high prices.
--Nat
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pjm on 2002-09-24T00:17:08
God that old article on theregister is a piece of garbage. Not only because of the ridiculous focus on wildly improbable version numbers, or that $400 figure (wasn't it $30 for beta, $129x2 for 10.0 and 10.2? Maybe it's just me, but that seems to equal $288, assuming no rebates or discounts) but also because of the entire second last paragraph. WTF?
Even with maximum charity --assuming the author is pointing at the FreeBSD-synching effort-- I think they've got the version numbers wrong. (Maybe this was prior to FreeBSD 5.0 being delayed, but in any case the older OS X versions were spun from FreeBSD 3.4, not 4.2) Methinks there's plenty of confusion between "BSD" and "FreeBSD" version numbers in evidence.
Either that or I've landed smack bang in a parallel universe. Just repeat: "it's only theregister, it's only theregister..."
And Microsoft....
blm on 2002-10-10T09:06:29
Using the same analogy Microsoft sells razor blades and shaving cream the accelerates hair growth.
