magusat999
join:2005-07-08
Oakland, CA
| reply to RayW
Re: Just assume you are a thief, and everyone is.
We are being conditioned and coaxed into feeling comfortable with subscription models right now. The astronomical price of software wasn't just "pulled out of someone's butt" - it's high so that at some point people will rather pay subscription fees than put a second on their home to buy it. Wait until Windows creeps up to $999.99... Vista Unlimited is already close to $700.00; that's not price strategy - that's MS taking a bullet in preparation for what's to come... and it really doesn't hurt that much because the majority of users aren't buying Ultimate anyway.
Think about it - why is it you can buy a Dell system with Vista Premium, for the price you would pay for Vista Premium itself??? Because the retail price of Vista is not based on just "what the market can bear" - it's all a part of the MS prescription preparation program. And it isn't just MS who is doing it - they are only the tip of the iceberg.
There is more at stake with a prescription model than more cash... it's another chunk of your privacy sold off. But in this case it isn't just a snapshot - it's a continuous all access pass to your life - the key that opens the door being your friendly neighborhood banking account... and that's money + POWER. |
