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user-inactivated  ·  2568 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps On My PC Without Asking

Company Stock price and investor ROI.



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OftenBen  ·  2568 days ago  ·  link  ·  

C.R.E.A.M.

Got it.

I just have a hard time believing that they are actually making money with that plan. Why not make it available to the whole globe? Why not attract a larger audience to then get a percentage from?

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user-inactivated  ·  2568 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Doesn't part of the whole concept of location locking, like region locks on DVDs, have to do partly because of controlling prices (for example, a DVD might cost $2 in Thailand and Vietnam but $15 in the US) and also because different companies have different distribution rights for different regions?

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