<b>Global Village 56K/Ethernet Combo card: Mac version can cost $140 more than Windows version; here's why and here's how to sav
<b>Global Village 56K/Ethernet Combo card: Mac version can cost $140 more than Windows version; here's why and here's how to sav
But maybe you are asking the bigger question: why is Global Village doing this? Why are they charging so much more for the Mac version of the product? The unofficial off-the-record answer I received from a Global Village contact was a depressing one: "Global Village is relatively new in the Wintel arena and is trying to build up marketshare. We are currently losing money on every Win95 PC card we sell, but, with the Mac market going down the tubes, we don't have much choice but to try to build Windows marketshare. So it's not so much our raising the price on Mac modems but rather us trying to sell more Windows modems by lowering the price on the Windows products. I realize it's a fine line, but we can't survive on the number of Mac units we sell anymore."