For those of you 68XX users that are longing to get their hands on WM 6 or even WM6.1 on their PDA. There are solutions out there. No, not from HP, HP decided to dissapoint a lot of their loyal customer, but from individual ROM cooker.
ROMs can be found on forums such as XDA-Developers site. There are several roms available, there are clean ones, and there are ROMs that has been added some basic utilities on it.
Upgrading ROM could be a tricky business, especially since it's not gonna be covered by the warranty. so it's not for the week of heart. But there are ways to revive most bricked devices. I've flashed my PDA several time triying out several different ROMs. and hasn't have any trouble. Currently I'm running WM6.1 on mine and loving it. It's not exactly legal, but since HP is not doing anything about it, third party from is the only way to go.
Head out to xda-developers and check them out for yourself. follow the instruction carefully and you'll be fine.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
HP has decided to dissapoint their PDA users
So I guess it's official, HP has announced that they are not going to provide upgrades to WM6 for the owners of their PDA-phone variants.
Which is a huge disappointment for me, I was eagerly waiting patiently for an update from HP. What's with HP with disappointing their customers? OS upgrade for my old 6365 was never provided also. I was a little understanding on hearing that 6365 was not upgraded to WM 2003SE because it was not just possible with the hardware. With 6828 however, I'm just pissed, from what I know, 6828 is capable of running WM6, but HP just decided not to upgrade.
I'm pretty sure people would be willing to purchase the upgrade if it wasn't provided for free.
Other companies provide upgrades for free why can't HP? Eten provided their Glofish with upgrade, for FREE.
Which is a huge disappointment for me, I was eagerly waiting patiently for an update from HP. What's with HP with disappointing their customers? OS upgrade for my old 6365 was never provided also. I was a little understanding on hearing that 6365 was not upgraded to WM 2003SE because it was not just possible with the hardware. With 6828 however, I'm just pissed, from what I know, 6828 is capable of running WM6, but HP just decided not to upgrade.
I'm pretty sure people would be willing to purchase the upgrade if it wasn't provided for free.
Other companies provide upgrades for free why can't HP? Eten provided their Glofish with upgrade, for FREE.
Hp's Ipaq 6828
Unlike their previous PDA phone I own, which was made by HTC, this model was made by Quanta. With the exact same specs as O2 atom. And after several months of use, I can finally feel comfortable enough to praise and critic the 6828. I'm strictly pointing out the plus and minus of the phone.
Lets start with specs:
GSM network: tri-band 900mhz, 1800mhz, 1900mhz
Display: 2,7inch TFT, 250k colors
Processor: Intel PXA272 416 MHz processor
Memory: 64MB RAM, 128MB ROM with Mini SD expansion slot
Connectivity: GPRS, EDGE, Wi-Fi 802.11b, bouetooth v1.2, Infrared, miniUSB.
OS: Microsoft windows mobile 5
Battery: Li-Po 1530 mAh
Camera: 2MP, with LED Flash
Now, lets get to the "negatives" right away:
When I purchase my 6828, I install the latest ROM once I got home. So all my views are based on the latest ROM.
The first thing I really notice was that GSM signal reception was really bad, I thought my old Dopod receive signal poorly. To my surprise 6828 was even poorer at it. My $40 GSM phone could do better. My nokia would get a full signal strength in my living room, 6828 however would only get 2 bars, sometimes 3. I use a hard case from PDAir for my PDA, and at the same location, I get no signal most of the time. Unfortunately, bad reception reduces battery live significantly. The same goes for it's WI-FI reception, it's really poor picking up Wi-Fi signals. HP need to do better with their internal antenna.
Battery live is not as long as I hoped, but I guess it's just the trade off for a faster processor.
Screen is really washed out under sunlight, it's not usable under sunlight at all.
Their speakers are weak, can hardly be heard in a room with medium noise level, making the speaker phone function useless most of the time. I would've thought they would learn from the mistake that they made with 6365. But I was wrong, it hasn't been busted yet though, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
The 2MP camera is pretty much useless, can only be used outdoors with plenty of sunlight even then it was still grainy. Indoor pictures are dark, never been able to take a decent picture indoor. Dopod 818pro had a much better picture quality. Saving took forever, even to it's internal memory could take a while. Saving to a mini SD card could take up to a minute or even more.
After the first month of use, I noticed that the LED for the camera would light dimly and never really turn itself off. I post my problem in several forums, and I found out that I'm not the only one experiencing problem with the LED. So apparently it's a defect from the factory. I turned it in to an HP service center, and it was fixed by the fourth day, it still a disappointment though, to turn my device into the service center only after a month of use. I would expect much more from a brand as big as HP.
The next thing I notice is the navigational pad is coated in chrome like paint. And after a month of use, the paint on it got peeled off. Such a poor quality.
Just last week I had to purchase a new stylus, the tip has broken off, just the tip. I asked around, and apparently I'm not the only 6828 owner who has broken the tip of the stylus. It's pretty common case with 6828's stylus, mind you I've been using several different PDA before this is the first one that I actually break the stylus. Seems that the stylus is not sturdy enough. Had to wait for a week for my new stylus to arrive from HP.
Now for the "Positives":
This Is the most stable PDA phone I've ever used. It almost never freezes on me, so I guess it's extremely reliable that way.
Fast, at least compared to my previous PDAs it's much faster, battery live was sacrificed though. Making it less desirable as a phone.
Wow, so little positives I could actually think of for this PDA, However despite it's negatives, I guess I really like this phone, stability comes first, and most important of all Great after sales service. Especially after the nightmare I get from Dopod, which took a month to fix a busted speaker. It's really difficult to get a decent after sales out here, and HP provided just that, an excellent one too.
I would give it a 7 out of 10, despite it's negatives. It's not a dream PDA phone, there are better ones out there, but i just couldn't cope with another awful after sales.
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Low costing parts for high priced PDA-phone?
To me A PDA-phone is targeted for a mobile warrior, highly active mobile warrior, and it's price rage is right up there with most premium mobile phone, cost even more sometimes.
I've own, an HP6365, a Dopod 818pro, and now an HP6828. What they all have in common is that they all has been sent into repair.
I used Hp6365 for a year and it was sent into repair twice, both times it was in for busted speaker, sounds coming out are distorted. The first repair was on the third month, it was fixed in 3 days of time. Yet after another 3 month of use it happens all over again, this time I didn't even bother to fix it until it was time to sell the device several months later.
My dopod 818pro was with me for 8 months, and it's in repair 2 times both times for busted speaker also. The first repair was done during the 2nd month of use, speaker ceases to work for some reason, and the vibrate on the phone become much2 weaker all the sudden. Their really weak after sales service is not helping either. The first time it took almost a month in repair. And as of now, the second repair has taken 2 months and it's still not done yet.
My latest HP6828, only after a little bit more than a month of use, the flash LED that is used for taking pictures is having problem, it lit dimly all the time, and wouldn't turn off. In turn it wasted precious battery live. My 6828 is still in repair now also, they promised that it will be done in 3 days. it's been 3 days and I'm still waiting for some news.
If the quality of the hardware are that poor, what makes them so expensive? Mind you that i'm not the only one having problems with PDA-phone, tons of other people from several forums I visited has same problems with poor quality hardware. I know that companies like HP just re-brand their PDAs, but still selecting which parts to use is still up to them. So I guess it's also their decision to use such poorly made parts that breaks easily. Is it just me or what? I really think that devices that are costing more than $500 at their initial release should have better reliability, it's not cheap, and it's targeted for premium users. Most cell phones, even high end ones hardly cost that much, and almost all of them have better builds. I even use a Nokia 1 series that cost 1/10th of my PDA that last longer and is more reliable, been using it for almost 2 years without a hitch, same thing with my series 6 phone. How is it possible that a $50 phone has better build quality than a $500 PDA-phone. Speakers are louder and clearer, for the most part it last long, at least till the end of the device's life. Such poor quality from the camera, which render it hardly usable from a PDA-phone is put to shame with a $100 phone, which take a much better pictures.
Shame on PDA manufacturer, N series from Nokia are also targeted as premium phones, most cost less than a PDA-phone, several cost the same, but loot at that build quality.
I've own, an HP6365, a Dopod 818pro, and now an HP6828. What they all have in common is that they all has been sent into repair.
I used Hp6365 for a year and it was sent into repair twice, both times it was in for busted speaker, sounds coming out are distorted. The first repair was on the third month, it was fixed in 3 days of time. Yet after another 3 month of use it happens all over again, this time I didn't even bother to fix it until it was time to sell the device several months later.
My dopod 818pro was with me for 8 months, and it's in repair 2 times both times for busted speaker also. The first repair was done during the 2nd month of use, speaker ceases to work for some reason, and the vibrate on the phone become much2 weaker all the sudden. Their really weak after sales service is not helping either. The first time it took almost a month in repair. And as of now, the second repair has taken 2 months and it's still not done yet.
My latest HP6828, only after a little bit more than a month of use, the flash LED that is used for taking pictures is having problem, it lit dimly all the time, and wouldn't turn off. In turn it wasted precious battery live. My 6828 is still in repair now also, they promised that it will be done in 3 days. it's been 3 days and I'm still waiting for some news.
If the quality of the hardware are that poor, what makes them so expensive? Mind you that i'm not the only one having problems with PDA-phone, tons of other people from several forums I visited has same problems with poor quality hardware. I know that companies like HP just re-brand their PDAs, but still selecting which parts to use is still up to them. So I guess it's also their decision to use such poorly made parts that breaks easily. Is it just me or what? I really think that devices that are costing more than $500 at their initial release should have better reliability, it's not cheap, and it's targeted for premium users. Most cell phones, even high end ones hardly cost that much, and almost all of them have better builds. I even use a Nokia 1 series that cost 1/10th of my PDA that last longer and is more reliable, been using it for almost 2 years without a hitch, same thing with my series 6 phone. How is it possible that a $50 phone has better build quality than a $500 PDA-phone. Speakers are louder and clearer, for the most part it last long, at least till the end of the device's life. Such poor quality from the camera, which render it hardly usable from a PDA-phone is put to shame with a $100 phone, which take a much better pictures.
Shame on PDA manufacturer, N series from Nokia are also targeted as premium phones, most cost less than a PDA-phone, several cost the same, but loot at that build quality.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Windows vista never ending nightmare
Working with vista is almost as if I pick-up a girl at a bar while drunk, never know what you gonna get and hope that you are waking up to a good looking girl. With Windows vista I woke up with a nightmare.
Every PC users has high hopes for this new Operating system. It looked beautiful, with promises of security, with overall improvements over windows XP, and did I mention it's beautiful?
Being beautiful, it needs high maintenance, low ends can barely run it, main stream gets non satisfactory performance, high performance PC is the only option. I use a mainstream PC, on the lower end of the spectrum nonetheless. A dual core PC, with a gig ram, should be enough. After-all the requirements was only a modern processor, a dual core 3600+ should be enough. A gig of ram was more than enough since the requirements is only 512, hell with these i still run XP at a blazing speed. The 6100 on-board video card is not the fastest, but it is suppose to be able to run vista's Aereo just fine, I hardly use my computer to play games, so it doesn't really matter t me as long I can see the eye pleasing effects on my monitor. With the same computer I installed Vista RC1 few months back, and a score of 3 with windows assessment, which was enough to get beautiful effects on vista. To my disappointment in the final version I was only given a score of 2,3. what a bummer, I guess I need to get a real video card with some raw power.
RC1 was a bit buggy on my machine, and kinda slow. I've thought the final should have all the bugs straighten out and faster cause to the best of my knowledge the RC was running error reporting that would report bugs to Microsoft, in the final the debugging function has been disabled. They had released RC2 since then, they had plenty of time to get everything right and iron out bugs. To my disappointment, the shipped version is just as buggy on my machine as it was RC1. Hangs more than 10 times over the course of several hours, don't know if it was the driver wise or whether if it was a bug in the windows that makes it really unstable. I really think it was more of the windows that's unstable, cause right after the installation finish, without anything on it, a clean windows, it hangs several times while changing settings on the windows.
After several hangs and slow responds, I just gave up and went back to windows XP. I will go back to explore more of vista later and try to report more of it, just hoping that I can cope with it.
Every PC users has high hopes for this new Operating system. It looked beautiful, with promises of security, with overall improvements over windows XP, and did I mention it's beautiful?
Being beautiful, it needs high maintenance, low ends can barely run it, main stream gets non satisfactory performance, high performance PC is the only option. I use a mainstream PC, on the lower end of the spectrum nonetheless. A dual core PC, with a gig ram, should be enough. After-all the requirements was only a modern processor, a dual core 3600+ should be enough. A gig of ram was more than enough since the requirements is only 512, hell with these i still run XP at a blazing speed. The 6100 on-board video card is not the fastest, but it is suppose to be able to run vista's Aereo just fine, I hardly use my computer to play games, so it doesn't really matter t me as long I can see the eye pleasing effects on my monitor. With the same computer I installed Vista RC1 few months back, and a score of 3 with windows assessment, which was enough to get beautiful effects on vista. To my disappointment in the final version I was only given a score of 2,3. what a bummer, I guess I need to get a real video card with some raw power.
RC1 was a bit buggy on my machine, and kinda slow. I've thought the final should have all the bugs straighten out and faster cause to the best of my knowledge the RC was running error reporting that would report bugs to Microsoft, in the final the debugging function has been disabled. They had released RC2 since then, they had plenty of time to get everything right and iron out bugs. To my disappointment, the shipped version is just as buggy on my machine as it was RC1. Hangs more than 10 times over the course of several hours, don't know if it was the driver wise or whether if it was a bug in the windows that makes it really unstable. I really think it was more of the windows that's unstable, cause right after the installation finish, without anything on it, a clean windows, it hangs several times while changing settings on the windows.
After several hangs and slow responds, I just gave up and went back to windows XP. I will go back to explore more of vista later and try to report more of it, just hoping that I can cope with it.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
MCE 2005 look back
I love my HTPC, I can record shows like a PVR, yet being a full blown computer system it just satisfy my needs being a gadget and techno freak that I am. I also love watching TV and just hate missing shows that I like. Being in a third world country it's hard to find a working PVR. After browsing the web for a while and read about advantages of a HTPC I decided to build one myself, and boy reading several sites, reading difficulties that people are having does not really justify the difficulty of building one. Well it's not that it's more difficult than building a PC, it's just harder to find the right parts out here.
At first, I started using a spare PC that I have lying around, it was barely adequate, the case was banged up and big, it was just ugly to place in the living room. I added a cheap TV card, it worked, the software that came with it was usable, it could record shows and schedule recording, but I wanted more. I looked around for alternatives front end for my HTPC. read about some linux based ones, but it wasn't compatible with my setup. MCE2005 was released and it looked great, but wasn't compatible either, well not that's it's not compatible, the spec on my system is just underpowered to run MCE. Then I stumble upon showshifter. It was compatible with my system and it looked great, easy to use and to setup. I've grown to like this program. It ran, barely, but it still did everything I wanted it to do.
Then one day, I decided to upgrade, gonna throw out the old system and build a new one, one that has a smaller case and easier on the eyes to look at. To my disappointment, Showshifter wasn't able to run on my new rig. Tried getting windows MCE to tun on my machine since it was more powerful, yet I hit a brick wall when I found out that my TV tuner was not compatible. Windows MCE2005 was extremely picky on hardware, the same video card needed a special MCE driver to run. The list for supported TV card was also short, it was hard to find a TV card that is compatible, took me a whole month just to find and buy a TV card that is compatible.
Getting all the requirements done, it was now time to set up MCE. Yet to my disappointment, MCE was harder to set up than I thought. Setting up TV channel was a nightmare, Microsoft supposedly made TV setup easy one would just download program listing from their server and viola it's done, if your country AND your cable provider is on their database that is. Well mine isn't, I had to scan the channels manually, when that's done, I found that it was impossible to rename channels and after searching articles on renaming channel name on MCE, I found none. Re arranging channel order was also very troublesome, ability to drag and drop channel order was not there, I had to click once to move the channel up one spot, without the ability of renaming channels I was left with just the frequency of the channel which only made the already daunting task all more difficult, took me several hours just to re arrange the channels, my $150 TV could do better. Most front-end I tried does better at this. MCE just simply offer very little customization, making it harder to set up, well unless you are lucky and your cable provider is in their database, which I doubt that Microsoft will be able to add every single one around the world. Adding program listing was also not humanly possible to add. I could download a whole month of program listing from the website of the respective channel, but there's just no way to add it to MCE's EPG. You can input EPG for all your channel all at once, with a tweak and downloaded sofware of course just no easy way of doing this, but it's not possible to add a channel at a time.
And I thought I was done, and be able to live with those as it's only a one time deal. but nooo I wasn't I needed to have a third party video decoder to run DVD on it, not just any decoder, but an MCE certified decoder.
And finally I was done setting up the whole thing. Trying to make my life easier, I tried to find an MCE remote only to find that no one is selling it. I tried to find an online store to get one, it was hard enough to find a store that would ship internationally, I found out that even if they are able to ship internationally the MCE remote however was not exportable. So I finally settled for a set of wireless keyboard and mouse, I works but I'm not happy.
Aside from that, I like the interface, it's clean and easy to use. It's integrated tightly with windows, operation was smooth, it was smooth only after I added another 512Mb of ram to my rig, the 512 i started with was not enough. MCE hogs most of them when it's recording shows, with a gig of RAM I'm still able to use the PC to some extent now, browsing become possible, watching a recored show is now also possible without affecting the show being recorded too greatly. Running a gameboy emulator was sluggish at best, as there aren't enough processing power left even though I thought that an athlon 64 300+ would be enough.
Vista is out now, I still haven't decide to upgrade yet, still waiting for them to iron out bugs, a HTPC should be reliable and be able to run 24X7 without a hitch. But with everything that I read about the high requirements of vista, it seems another upgrade is looming around the corner, whether it's only a memory upgrade that's required, or the whole system altogether. Just hoping that my TV card would be compatible, it could really save me from running around looking for a compatible one.
One can only hope.
At first, I started using a spare PC that I have lying around, it was barely adequate, the case was banged up and big, it was just ugly to place in the living room. I added a cheap TV card, it worked, the software that came with it was usable, it could record shows and schedule recording, but I wanted more. I looked around for alternatives front end for my HTPC. read about some linux based ones, but it wasn't compatible with my setup. MCE2005 was released and it looked great, but wasn't compatible either, well not that's it's not compatible, the spec on my system is just underpowered to run MCE. Then I stumble upon showshifter. It was compatible with my system and it looked great, easy to use and to setup. I've grown to like this program. It ran, barely, but it still did everything I wanted it to do.
Then one day, I decided to upgrade, gonna throw out the old system and build a new one, one that has a smaller case and easier on the eyes to look at. To my disappointment, Showshifter wasn't able to run on my new rig. Tried getting windows MCE to tun on my machine since it was more powerful, yet I hit a brick wall when I found out that my TV tuner was not compatible. Windows MCE2005 was extremely picky on hardware, the same video card needed a special MCE driver to run. The list for supported TV card was also short, it was hard to find a TV card that is compatible, took me a whole month just to find and buy a TV card that is compatible.
Getting all the requirements done, it was now time to set up MCE. Yet to my disappointment, MCE was harder to set up than I thought. Setting up TV channel was a nightmare, Microsoft supposedly made TV setup easy one would just download program listing from their server and viola it's done, if your country AND your cable provider is on their database that is. Well mine isn't, I had to scan the channels manually, when that's done, I found that it was impossible to rename channels and after searching articles on renaming channel name on MCE, I found none. Re arranging channel order was also very troublesome, ability to drag and drop channel order was not there, I had to click once to move the channel up one spot, without the ability of renaming channels I was left with just the frequency of the channel which only made the already daunting task all more difficult, took me several hours just to re arrange the channels, my $150 TV could do better. Most front-end I tried does better at this. MCE just simply offer very little customization, making it harder to set up, well unless you are lucky and your cable provider is in their database, which I doubt that Microsoft will be able to add every single one around the world. Adding program listing was also not humanly possible to add. I could download a whole month of program listing from the website of the respective channel, but there's just no way to add it to MCE's EPG. You can input EPG for all your channel all at once, with a tweak and downloaded sofware of course just no easy way of doing this, but it's not possible to add a channel at a time.
And I thought I was done, and be able to live with those as it's only a one time deal. but nooo I wasn't I needed to have a third party video decoder to run DVD on it, not just any decoder, but an MCE certified decoder.
And finally I was done setting up the whole thing. Trying to make my life easier, I tried to find an MCE remote only to find that no one is selling it. I tried to find an online store to get one, it was hard enough to find a store that would ship internationally, I found out that even if they are able to ship internationally the MCE remote however was not exportable. So I finally settled for a set of wireless keyboard and mouse, I works but I'm not happy.
Aside from that, I like the interface, it's clean and easy to use. It's integrated tightly with windows, operation was smooth, it was smooth only after I added another 512Mb of ram to my rig, the 512 i started with was not enough. MCE hogs most of them when it's recording shows, with a gig of RAM I'm still able to use the PC to some extent now, browsing become possible, watching a recored show is now also possible without affecting the show being recorded too greatly. Running a gameboy emulator was sluggish at best, as there aren't enough processing power left even though I thought that an athlon 64 300+ would be enough.
Vista is out now, I still haven't decide to upgrade yet, still waiting for them to iron out bugs, a HTPC should be reliable and be able to run 24X7 without a hitch. But with everything that I read about the high requirements of vista, it seems another upgrade is looming around the corner, whether it's only a memory upgrade that's required, or the whole system altogether. Just hoping that my TV card would be compatible, it could really save me from running around looking for a compatible one.
One can only hope.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Has Balmer got the right to blame piracy?
On the recent news I saw Steve Balmer (The current CEO of Microsoft) blaming software pirates for causing such a slow sales of Windows Vista and loss of revenue. It's just seem easier to blame someone than to reflect on their own faults doesn't it?
I think someone needs to knock some senses into that man.
Let's see some of the possible reasons on why could Vista has such a slow sales.
Only if Microsoft adjust the pricing on their software, I don't think piracy will be so wide spread. Pricing has to remain acceptable. If it's way too far over their head people will resort to piracy, and I really mean adjusting prices, not crippling the software and making it cheaper, the so called "starter edition" of windows are simply crap, barely unusable.
Compare to Mac OS X, which is price at a more reasonable $130, not to mention family pack license can be purchase for as little as $190 for 5 computers. It's a real steal. Windows on the other hand, for $200 you only get home basic version, which is not comparable to Mac OS X, the version that is comparable is the ultimate edition and it cost $400 for a single computer.
Sure, make the promotion of buying up to 2 Vista home premium version for $50/each if we get vista Ultimate. But $500 for 3 licenses? where as $200 for 5 licenses on the mac? even better yet add $100 for a Mac Mini, a whole computer with OS INCLUDED.
Balmer, you're not there YET! Don't blame the people, understand the people.
I think someone needs to knock some senses into that man.
Let's see some of the possible reasons on why could Vista has such a slow sales.
- Couldn't the fact that vista is still buggy and bug ridden, making it harder to penetrate the corporate market, they really want the software they use bug free.
- Difficulty in finding device drivers could also play a major role. People wouldn't want to chance their operating system only to find their device couldn't work on the newly installed OS. Gamers will think twice before upgrading, cause most display drivers are still not well made. For example ATI and Nvidia still struggle on implementing SLI and their crossfire mode. not to mention open GL support. Lots of printers are still left unsupported without any drivers. And a lot of other devices still couldn't run smoothly on vista. Microsoft advertises Vista to be a very advance and robust OS, why can't they at least support all devices that are available for a while now, newer video card are understandable, old printers however. I always thought plug n play is one feature that Microsoft just couldn't get right since Windows 95.
- How about the absurd hardware requirements? Most people says the bare minimum RAM for using Vista is 1GB of ram, so that at least user experience is bare-able, Microsoft says that the minimum is 512MB. I tried the RC1 myself using 512MB of ram, I just don't see how can other program runs on it since Vista itself already occupy 70-80% of RAM. Most offices uses a bare minimum for a computer, just enough so that their employee could run office programs and read their e-mails, with XP 128MB is barely enough and 256MB is common on office computers. I just don't think that most companies would consider the upgrade, well most smaller companies anyway, not only that they have to purchase an overpriced OS, most of the computers at their office has to be replaced. XP is at the point where it is fairly stable and still able to do most tasks. I really don't think that they will upgrade anytime soon.
- What about the price of the software? I just think it's just way over the top, making vista the most expensive client windows ever. They miss lots of deadlines on the release of Vista, and making us pay for the development cost. If it take way too long and too costly to develop, it's a miss calculation on their part, but we have to pay for it.
- According to this site: http://newsgd.com/news/china1/200608180006.htm China's per capita income is $1,740 more/less.
- According to this site: http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/oct/13income.htm India's per capita income is $750 more/less.
- According to this site: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-05-03-income-chart_x.htm The United State's per capita income is $34,586 more/less.
Only if Microsoft adjust the pricing on their software, I don't think piracy will be so wide spread. Pricing has to remain acceptable. If it's way too far over their head people will resort to piracy, and I really mean adjusting prices, not crippling the software and making it cheaper, the so called "starter edition" of windows are simply crap, barely unusable.
Compare to Mac OS X, which is price at a more reasonable $130, not to mention family pack license can be purchase for as little as $190 for 5 computers. It's a real steal. Windows on the other hand, for $200 you only get home basic version, which is not comparable to Mac OS X, the version that is comparable is the ultimate edition and it cost $400 for a single computer.
Sure, make the promotion of buying up to 2 Vista home premium version for $50/each if we get vista Ultimate. But $500 for 3 licenses? where as $200 for 5 licenses on the mac? even better yet add $100 for a Mac Mini, a whole computer with OS INCLUDED.
Balmer, you're not there YET! Don't blame the people, understand the people.
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