It's unfortunate that Apple had to cut the clones, but they weren't cutting into their profits margins (which are absurd, I agree). They were completely destroying Apple's profits - their overhead was much higher than most clone makers (with the possible exception of Daystar Digital).MKSheppard wrote:Hey smartypants, Apple is just as monopolistic and greedy as Microsoft,Pu-239 wrote:Wintrolls. *sighs*. Go hang out with your ilk at comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy, Shep.
they just have a better PR department. Remember the Mac Clone thing
from 1994 or thereabouts? It seems that the clone makers were
actually making Macs that were *GASP* competitively priced with
equivalent WinBlows PCs, and therefore cutting into Apple's profits
(which comes mostly from fleecing idiots who think that having that
little apple logo makes their computer perform 10 times better),
so they cut off the Clone licenses.
Most of the R&D went into figuring out how to get it to use fanless cooling. It took so much money to do (even with relatively low-power parts) that Apple was forced to make the price high, killing most of the demand.Or Apple's Cube? They spent a shitload of money on really, a worthless
piece of shit that couldn't be easily upgraded...hell most of the R&D went
into actually making the right kind of transparent plastic..
It could also be upgraded fairly easily (hard drive, video card, RAM, processor), abliet not quite as easily as most machines. You'd run into the same problem with other small form-factor computers.
