sbt <dogbreath.TakeThisOut@chaseabone.com.invalid> wrote:
> In article <0001HW.C3EACBB103F36D66F01846D8.TakeThisOut@news.verizon.net>, Randy
> Howard <randyhoward.TakeThisOut@FOOverizonBAR.net> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:44:47 -0600, Richard Maine wrote
> > (in article <1icxa7r.19k7j301y2c84mN%nospam@see.signature>):
> >
> > > Dave Fritzinger <dfritzin.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I just noticed that Apple no longer gives you the remote for free.
> > >
> > > Maybe they found a lot of customers like me. I've got at least 3,
> > > perhaps 4 of the things floatting around the house. I've never actually
> > > used one of them for anything other that seeing that they worked.
> >
> > Same. I don't even know where the two of them I have are at the
> > moment, and don't care. Pretty worthless, imo.
>
> Worthless to some, useful to others -- pretty typical of a lot of
> hardware/software features.
Yes. But my comment was intended as a serious answer to the (implied)
question of why Apple stopped shipping the remore with the computer. I
wasn't sniping about the remote or saying that it was inherently useless
- just that it was useless to some customers such as myself. That it
could be useful to others I accept.
When something ise useful to some customers, but useless to others, that
can be a very good reason to make it a separate option as opposed to
shipping it to all of them. That's particularly so when it is a separate
piece of hardware like this.
Of course, it depends on the relative numbers involved; something useful
to 95% of the customers, you might about as well ship to them all. And
there are a bunch of other factors involved in such a decision. You can
even, if you want to, throw in desire to gouge more money out of
customers, balanced against annoying them. I'll not speculate on flamish
matters like that. I'll look for more "objective" (not quite the right
word, but I struggled for a better one) reasons before assuming such
base ones. I would have to assume that the fact that a significant
fraction of the customers might not get any use out of it would be one
of the basic factors.
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