Scattered among the $500 to $1,000 desktop computers available at Walmart.com, one machine stands out. It doesn’t have a unique design, but its price tag looks like a typo: $199.
[…]
The cheap price reflects Wal-Mart’s buying power as the world’s largest retailer and is an aggressive gambit by a Taiwanese company that has carved out a niche at the low end of the computer market. To get to $199, First International Computer had to forgo software made by Microsoft Corp. or Apple Inc. and try the little-used open-source computer platform.
Mmm… yeah. Little used. Open source. Platform. Really?
Leave a Reply