Several years ago I was working my way through college at a company owned RS store. In regional/district sales meetings they regularly acknowledged that they overcharged for things like specialty/phone batteries because RS was convenient. I don't think I could count the number of times they likened it to your corner party store charging $4.29 for a gallon of milk. They assumed that the consumer would pay for the convenience.
It doesn't surprise me that they are having troubles now. They never quite understood that it wasn't convenient to have to give your address and have batteries and cell phones shoved down your throat every time you went in for a $5 audio cable.
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I didn't have the honor of reading the original flamewar. It's a valid on-topic point of view.
My favorite is the deadly one-two punch of #10 and #1 together...
Telling a user to reboot (Windows) and having them tell me they did. After 20 mintues of looking at other solutions I pull up their Task Manager and see that their System Idle Process has used over 700 hours of CPU time.
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My Creative Zen Nano doesn't have an on/off switch either. You hold the play/pause button down. Wait, that's sounds familiar too...
Several years ago I was working my way through college at a company owned RS store. In regional/district sales meetings they regularly acknowledged that they overcharged for things like specialty/phone batteries because RS was convenient. I don't think I could count the number of times they likened it to your corner party store charging $4.29 for a gallon of milk. They assumed that the consumer would pay for the convenience.
It doesn't surprise me that they are having troubles now. They never quite understood that it wasn't convenient to have to give your address and have batteries and cell phones shoved down your throat every time you went in for a $5 audio cable.
I didn't have the honor of reading the original flamewar. It's a valid on-topic point of view.
My favorite is the deadly one-two punch of #10 and #1 together... Telling a user to reboot (Windows) and having them tell me they did. After 20 mintues of looking at other solutions I pull up their Task Manager and see that their System Idle Process has used over 700 hours of CPU time.
Easier one: Replace it!
Someday, somebody will be bragging about their X-Box and their first gaming experiences with Halo.
My money says you're 3 for 3.