Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pro-sol.cts.com!lhaider From: lhaider@pro-sol.cts.com (Lawrence Haider) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: New GS ROMs Message-ID: <8908181021.AA14047@trout> Date: 18 Aug 89 09:14:20 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 Network Comment: to #10079 by haven!adm!smoke!gwyn@purdue.edu >This is rationalization, not reasoning. Do you really expect to be able to >take your automobile back to the dealer when a new model comes out and insist >on a free upgrade of every component that the manufacturer was able to >improve between models? Why does everyone want to compare Apples to Automobiles? It is NOT the same thing! Think about component costs and labor required to make an upgrade in a car and compare that with the component costs and labor required to upgrade a computer (or software for that matter) and you'll find that a computer doesn't ever come in spitting distance of the costs of car work. A car dealer dosn't make as much off of selling a car (percentage wise) as Apple makes off of their machines, and upgrading one has just about NO relation to the other. If you want to take Apples side, PLEASE make a better analogy! Laer