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the frequent discounting is actually considered a problem in the PC industry. companies often complain about a "race to the bottom," and with the exception of Acer and ASUS, most aren't big fans of netbooks because they force razor-thin margins and reduce the actual money taken in just by virtue of price. and in regular notebooks, you end up with bass-ackwards configurations where you've got a low-rent Pentium dual-core and integrated graphics hooked up to 4GB of RAM and a 320GB hard disk, all because the components that actually matter -- the CPU, the graphics, etc. -- are considered too expensive to do right.
as for FM tuners, there's an iPod Radio Remote that works with the iPod classic and iPod nano: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MA070G/D
the iPhone doesn't need it so much, because it can just pull a radio stream over 3G if you're bent on it.
I think we tolerate Apple more because it's half idiosyncrasies; they do what they do because they believe it's simpler or because Jobs believes in maintaining price while upgrading features. with Microsoft, it's all about dominating a particular sector: it wants to "kill Google" (Ballmer's words) because it wants to have the same control over search and the Internet that it does with the desktop. it buys out smaller firms because that takes competitors out of the way -- not necessarily because they're actually useful in finishing a product.
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