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Old 10-31-2012, 01:37 PM   #125
fjtorres
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Or maybe there are other reasons... such as driving business to the cloud or paying Microsoft some amount per device for the use of the FAT filing system...

Graham
The most likely reason is "what the market will bear" pricing.
When you can charge an extra $100 for $5 worth of silicon and *still* be under-pricing the market leader you just smile and pocket the extra $80 the buyers give you.

Frederick Douglass comes to mind, despite the very different context:
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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