3 May
2002
3 May
'02
11:15 p.m.
From: Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com>
The problem is that the popular U.S. vendors expend
entirely too much of
their
resources on packaging, thinking, perahaps correctly,
that it will help
sales,
but they forget, oir perhaps not, that the
individualized packaging will
make
their systems difficult to upgrade over time, thereby
making the
long-term
usefulness of considerably less value.
Dick, I believe they do this deliberately, to inhibit upgrades and repairs.
I make a lot on upgrades and repairs of systems I originally built and
sold, but the big names only make money when they sell a machine, so
naturally they prefer that people replace their PCs instead of fixing them
or beefing them up.
When people come into my shop and I can get them to understand "total cost
of ownership," they buy from me every time.
Glen
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