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2muchcoffeeman on Jan 27, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: South Korea bans unremovable mobile bloatware

And is this actually realised as a savings to the consumer? I'd imagine it works more like selling advertising space. The bloatware is another source of revenue. Not a means to lower prices.

If they were really concerned about maximising consumer value, they wouldn't keep picking dumb prices that end in '9.99'.

tn13 on Jan 29, 2014 [–]

Prices are mostly determined by the competition and not by the seller. Say Sony manufactures a laptop at $100 and Lenovo at $102.

If Lenovo has to be competition they have to somehow shove off that additional $2 required to make themselves on par with Sony.

So every penny counts.

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