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To: Richard Jurek who wrote (1192)3/4/1998 1:04:00 PM
From: Steve Herzog  Read Replies (1) of 1648
 
From www.macfixit.com, 3/4/98:

Global Village 56K/Ethernet Combo card: Mac version can cost $140 more than
Windows version; here's why and here's how to save the bucks
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A reader writes that he ordered a Global Village 56K/Ethernet Combo card from a mail
order catalog for $229 (it normally sells for $350-$369)! However, it turned out to be
a "Windows" card and would not work in his Mac. When he called to get the Mac version,
he was told that it would cost $369. The only differences between the two versions of the
card are their firmware and software. The actual card hardware is identical. Even the
model numbers are the same. As such, rather than pay the higher price for the Mac
version, the reader downloaded the latest Mac firmware and software from the Global
Village site. He installed them and the supposed "Windows" card now worked "flawlessly"
in his Mac, saving him over $140.

But maybe you are asking the bigger question: why is Global Village doing this? Why are
they charging so much more for the Mac version of the product? The unofficial
off-the-record answer I received from a Global Village contact was a depressing one:
"Global Village is relatively new in the Wintel arena and is trying to build up
marketshare. We are currently losing money on every Win95 PC card we sell, but, with
the Mac market going down the tubes, we don't have much choice but to try to build
Windows marketshare. So it's not so much our raising the price on Mac modems but
rather us trying to sell more Windows modems by lowering the price on the Windows
products. I realize it's a fine line, but we can't survive on the number of Mac units we
sell anymore."
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