In Reply to: Light Bulb Question.... posted by Todd Krieger on September 21, 2004 at 21:42:31:
when it probably costs much, much less to make it consumable?Hell, they recently figured out how to make toilet brushes consumable.
Camera film makers figured this out at least a decade ago.
Computer hardware/software is just barely shy of the threshold of being a disposable product....
-Pete
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