Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Aug 2009 19:39 UTC
Earlier today we reported that while Apple doesn't encourage it, the Snow Leopard upgrade disk can be used to upgrade machines that have Mac OS 10.4 Tiger installed as well. However, this is actually forbidden by the accompanying EULA, which raises an interesting question: do you have any moral problems ignoring said EULA? And on a more general note, do you actually care about any EULA at all?
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We can both agree that MS's profitability outside of Office and Windows is a mixed bag at best, but how did those products achieve the level of market penetration that they did? It wasn't by ensuring every piece of software was licensed at full retail price.
No one is arguing otherwise - the point I was making, however, is right now Microsoft is reliant more than ever on Windows and Office growth to keep the company growing. The simple fact of the matter is that now Microsoft is squeezing their customers for all they're worth now that people have become so dependent.
Take their expression suite; great idea but why is it only available on Windows? why not have a Mac version? are Microsoft so dogmatically addicted to Windows and only supporting Windows that they fail to see the forest for the trees?
Apple, for all intents and purposes, is 'cool' in spite of being a controlling, profit-maximizing and penny pinching company (at least under Jobs). I really don't think this has anything to do with them turning a blind eye as it does with them setting out a honey pot to attract prospective customers.
I wouldn't call them penny pinchers if one were defining it from the point of view regarding screwing every dollar out of the customer after sucking them into a false sense of security for over a decade and a half. The only thing Steve did was tell R&D that when money is spent on an idea - it better be on something that actually produces a real product that makes money rather than stupid pie in the sky ideas that amount to nothing.
Investment in, product out - that is how the R&D cycle works; if the R&D isn't focused you end up with stupid products coming out to address needs of customers that don't exist yet. The art is for CEO to lick their finger, put it in the air and sense the direction the industry is flowing. The R&D within Apple before Steve arrived went through stupid pie in the sky ideas that pushed out half baked crap, new versions of Mac OS that never got anywhere and new products for which there was no interest outside the hard core devotees.
I wouldn't call it 'penny pinching', I'd call it prudent investment of shareholders money.
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2005-07-06
[quote]Apple don't have to worry because their traditional markets are growing, penny pinching over a few customers doesn't achieve sizable results and only screw up an image that is perceived as 'cool' to something of being a company whining because they're making billions when they want to make tens of billions - they'll make sure their customers are squeezed for every dollar possible.[/quote]
We can both agree that MS's profitability outside of Office and Windows is a mixed bag at best, but how did those products achieve the level of market penetration that they did? It wasn't by ensuring every piece of software was licensed at full retail price.
Apple, for all intents and purposes, is 'cool' in spite of being a controlling, profit-maximizing and penny pinching company (at least under Jobs). I really don't think this has anything to do with them turning a blind eye as it does with them setting out a honey pot to attract prospective customers.