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Re:More Lenovo woes: security flaws, website clerical errors... by pjc50 on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @11:41AM (#9532560)
This is bizarre. PCs and laptops are very much differentiated on quality and specs - it's just that the margin is competed away. The only way to maintain margin is to de-commodify, either by market differentiation (brand building) or barriers to entry. Apple have done extremely well at both.
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Re:More Lenovo woes: security flaws, website clerical errors... by allenbrunson on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @02:16PM (#9533747)
... so apparently we are in rabid agreement? i was speaking specifically about the microsoft ecosystem, not about anything capable of running a general-purpose operating system. i am myself typing this on an apple laptop. i haven't participated in the microsoft ecosystem for decades, and this is one of the reasons.
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