For what use?
Their hardware costs are 99% outsourced to amazon I would imagine and I hope their pricing policy covers those costs so what is the 10 mll going to be used for?
Development costs?
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How old are you?
Let see what the alternatives were about when 95 hit the streets
Proprietry hardware options like Mac, Atari and Amiga
CMD line software such as UNIX (no Linux then), which often commanded a horredous price tag.
So 95 bought commodity hardware and simple software to the masses.
i.e?
So the main rival was the massivley bloated and slow Netscape Navigator.
Office?
And the rival in the early days was either expensive proprietry software, or extremely basic software.
This software suite, bought PC computing to the masses.
Oh and I had an Atari Falcon 030 when 95 came out which was much more powerful, but soon switched to the pc (well ran both at once for sometime)