25
Mar
Apple and Microsoft taxes
Steve Ballmer recently caught flack for essentially saying that Apple users pay an Apple tax of $500 for buying Macs compared to PCs. Does that mean that Linux users are forced to pay a Microsoft tax every time they buy a PC with Microsoft software on it?
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Given that most people use their computers mainly for Web browsing, sending and receiving email, listening to music, watching videos, and creating and editing documents, there’s not much of a difference between what they do on a PC versus a Mac. So I call the price difference between Macs and PCs an “Apple tax.”
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via Do Linux users pay a “Microsoft tax?” – Computerworld Blogs.
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