Introduction To Computer Hardware – Learning Computers

Do you see how this is integration marketing? He offered a license of his software, which people paid a small fee for as part of buying their computer. He got to keep the names of the software customers. (Hello? That’s called list building.) So now every time there is an upgrade in the software he can promote that to his list and every time someone takes him up on that he keeps 100% of the money. And believe me, there have been lots of upgrades during this time!


I’m a male, so naturally I love to get different kinds of tech gear. You know the standard stuff. Audio/video equipment, computer hardware & software, power tools, cool kitchen appliances, etc. Of course, all these items come with a manual, which provides me with detailed instructions on how to operate each item. Now, since I’m a male, generally that manual is simply a waste of paper and ink. Nonetheless, the manual is available should I, at any point, need to refer to it.


You can set Restore Points on your computer, but if your Motherboard is fried, then you’ll still lose everything. You can get Motherboard rescue kits, but it’s much simpler to just do a regular back up. To an external hard drive. They’re surprisingly cheap nowadays too.


Now conventional wisdom back then was that the money was in the hardware, so the computer manufacturers said sure. They probably thought he was nuts for basically giving his software away because they thought he would never see anything out of it.
