Joost van de Griek wrote:
A" Many PC buyers buy
Wintel PCs because "that's what everyone else uses", "that's what we use at
work", or "that's the only option".
There are alternatives to what came with the computer when it was purchased,
but a large percentage of computer buyers doesn't know that, and an even
larger percentage knows but can't be bothered.
That's why most people still use IE4 on Win95.
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>Or it could be that that they thought a lot about their decision and
explored all the options...but when they saw that there is 10 times more
software for WinTel than Apple and at 50% of the cost they made a decision
to expand their choices and reduce their cost.
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