Stephen; I think that press comment might be premature, as Jobs said in his memo that there was a lot of thinking going on about cloning. For a marketer in this day and age to speak of cost allocations that way seems to indicate someone was asleep at the switch(Amelio?) when the $50 flat rate was set in stone, after all many would stand in line for $300 bills at $50 each. They should have sold CPU and OS packages, with a progressive fee built in so that the powerful CPUs for the high end systems would yield the $300 to Apple, and the slower ones a graded lesser amount reflecting reality.
Such a public desertion of clones as that article has stated has never been stated that way by Apple, and looks like doomspeak, if he was right he crows, and if wrong is forgiven, a common press strategy.
I think there are a few more weeks to wait before this thing is finalized, and then they will sew what they reap, sew good, get good, and vice versa.
Bill |
