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Originally Posted by gwynevans
= more support issues = higher support costs = less money. It's not as one-sided as you suggest!
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Well, you also get more support issues with more customers... but I doubt that most companies would be worried about it. None of this software needs to be that complicated; it should be relatively easy for a company like Sony to support their reader software on more than one platform. Not to mention, the purchase rate amongst Mac users might be far higher than amongst windows users. Lets consider the fact that none of the Hardware based readers properly supports Macs yet; therefore Sony could get a much larger piece of the market. In addition, Mac owners are often amongst the earliest adopters of new Technology.
I am sure there is probably a bean counter somewhere who figures that maybe, 5-10% of the people who buy the readers might end up buying a Sony PC. Of course the last Sony PC I saw was so crowded with junk software that it barely ran (and that is from the store).
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Bill