Regarding eroding profit margins - that's true. PC desktop is highly competitive ... but who cares since I'm not talking about
which one of DELL, CPQ or GTW will survive.
How about none of the above???? If M$ doesn't lower its cost
for the bloat-ware, how long will these companies' shareholders
put up with collapsing margins??? Ironically, if PC's get cheap
enough, why would anyone want to bother making them at all???
Your cynical pronouncement about continued success of the PC
and Wintel because of end-users' lack of intelligence in using
and adapting to computers is the typical attitude that has driven
M$ since its inception. Besides being patronizing and demeaning,
it is also incorrect.
In order to shore up their margins, what's to prevent these makers
from saying to their "idiot-level" PC-end-users, "If you want a free PC, you have to take Linux, otherwise buy M$ garbage-ware separately". Then again, perhaps prospective customers will see
that they don't even need M$ crap-ware & PC's in the first place
and just buy a network appliance running Java.
The only way your future scenario will pan out is if customers
decide that they are too stupid to use Linux with a gui front-end,
they absolutely must have a PC, so they ignor all the cheaper, more
reliable, and easier-to-use alternatives, and they are also gluttons
for punishment so they beg M$ to hit them again with more slop-ware.
Otherwise, M$ loses and SUNW wins the end-user wars. See how that
works??? |
