Linux netbooks returned more than Windows
By Andrew Miller in Reader
Posted in Linux on October 6, 2008 at 1:11 pm
While doing my normal 2 hours worth of news reading this morning (I’m a Journalist - I can get away with it…), I found a few interesting pieces - one of which struck a chord because I had been talking about the issue recently. Gizmodo has a piece suggesting the return rate of MSI Netbooks is 4x greater that of XP equivalents. To quite the article, which in turn quotes “Laptop”:
We have done a lot of studies on the return rates and haven
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Loading ...Comment by - October 7, 2008 on 4:07 pm
“They are used to changing phones every year or so and learning a new interface.”
No, they are not.
They are used to changing their phone, but no-one bothers to learn anything about any phone, beyond how to turn it on and read their messages.
Comment by - October 7, 2008 on 4:11 pm
Perhaps if you’ve bought a simple phone Mike. I would see it as a waste of money to get a fancy phone and bother learning how to use it.
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