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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by emodendroket on Thursday July 19, 2018 @06:08PM (#17570770)
Your two observations are connected. They do it because they are paid by the software maker, allowing them to sell the product for less.
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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by scarface74 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @11:22PM (#17572188)
People use to always talk about the “Windows tax” and say that computers would cost less if they didn’t come with Windows. Actually the opposite is true. With all of the deals they can make preinstalling bloat on their computers, OEMs could make more than enough to offset the cost of a Windows license. They couldn’t do that with alternative OS’s.
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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by emodendroket on Friday July 20, 2018 @09:00AM (#17574582)
They probably could -- if there were a large demand for Linux laptops, there's no particular reason they couldn't come pre-installed with Linux-based adware.
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