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bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months agoYou could say that about any product or service. The issue here is windows famously charged until very recently (and still sort of does) which distinguishes it from those that don’t charge.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
But Windows is the product. Hardware is a small part of their revenue, and most of their install base is hardware that isn’t theirs.
MacOS is also part of Apple’s product, but they pretty much only sell higher margin premium hardware that both pays for and streamlines the OS development process.
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Windows OS is not the product.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yes, it absolutely is.