>The problem is that the popular U.S. vendors expend entirely too much of
>their
>resources on packaging, thinking, perahaps correctly, that it will help
>sales,
>but they forget, oir perhaps not, that the individualized packaging will make
>their systems difficult to upgrade over time, thereby making the long-term
>usefulness of considerably less value. Apple has taken this to the extreme,
>as only a vendor knowing he has a market segment to himself could do.
Most of the system manufacturers WANT to make it hard to upgrade the
system. They don't want you swapping parts to renew the life of your
machine... they want you to just buy a whole new machine every few years.
These upgrade impared designes are deliberate.
-chris
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Received on Fri May 03 2002 - 16:56:11 BST