> Even if Apple gave away Hypercard to people who bought a mac > without it, Apple would still be paying for it. In the case > of all those other things, the taxpayer is paying for it, or > else the company that hired him is paying for it, and > actually he is likely himself paying for it because he is > probably getting paid less considering he is getting paid in > benefits instead of salary.
Costs do not automatically get passed on to customers in the same way. Some business models work that way in a dollar-to-dollar sense, but most successful ones (other than oil companies) do not. Apple used to bundle various products either to differentiate one model from another (esp after they started differentiating between business and home use), to keep customers happy in key markets or, to keep customers from looking at total solutions from competitors. The key applications that Apple gave away for free back when were critical for them to maintain their hold on the education market, esp in the era when desktop publishing was in its childhood. They could easily afford to do that because they charged a premium for their hardware/software packages. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
