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Old 11-01-2012, 11:24 AM   #150
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by pl001 View Post
The point I was making is that if Apple had not made that memory pricing strategy acceptable to the masses, Google would probably not be doing it.
And *my* tangential point is that Apple only gets away with it because the consumers let them. Google saw Apple making a billion a month off closed, limited devices and quite reasonably decided they wanted some of that.

It all comes down to what (some? most?) consumers are willing to put up with.
If consumers didn't go along, *nobody* would be doing it.
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