X and Eye Candy

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 03:50:02PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> 7) Card makers want old cards to die so that they can sell new ones.
>    Anything that extends the life may cannibalize sales of new cards.

How about:

If you let me keep using your card until it dies of a hardware failure,
I will keep buying your cards for my new machines and I will keep
recomending your cards to people I know.

Do the card makers have any idea what that rule is worth?

Len Sorensen
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