When you are selling a commodity product, like a PC, whose primary market distinction is price, 10¢ is a significant cost and $1 would be ten times more significant. That is not corporate greed that is the reality of a commodity market. It is even more crucial when the market itself is shrinking and the computer market is shrinking world wide because it has become saturated.


If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

— Albert Einstein