>>>>Ford analogy
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>>Perhaps a more accurate model would be:
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>>1. I pay $16,000 or whatever for a new Ford Focus
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>>2. Ford 'licenses' the right to use this car, but doesn't allow me to 'own' it.
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>>3. Ford is under no obligation to fix any of the defects that emerge during the first several months that I own the car
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>>4. (Under the emerging model for software services), Ford decides on its own when I no longer have the right to use the car, and requires me to 'upgrade' to a new car in 18 months. The new car will presumably be free of the defects present in item #3.
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>>5. Repeat 1-4 until customer questions his own sanity.
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>That pretty funny. But just wait till the customer trys to buy a non-Ford only to find out it won't run on 85% of the roads. Who "innovated" that? :-)

Or, goes to a dealer and although buying another car, has to take home a Ford, too, and can't get a refund on the unused Ford. The dealer can't sell any cars if he doesn't sell a Ford along with all the others.