Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 09:39:07 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: dennis@etinc.com, dufault@hda.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: Unix Gurus shift to Microsoft (fwd) Message-ID: <199704090009.JAA21578@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199704082337.QAA00361@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Apr 8, 97 04:37:50 pm"
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Amancio Hasty stands accused of saying: > >From The Desk Of dennis : > > can compete with their marketing power? Who else could > > buy WebTV and put the kind of money into it that would be required > > to make such a stupid idea profitable? > > > > Dennis > > Okay, I am going to be a nice guy ... Perhaps Sony, Nintendo or Sega have > the marketing clout and distribution channels to push the WebTV idea. ... however none of them has ever displayed the courage to push someone else's stupid idea hard enough to make it a success. Sony is extremely conservative (and have shown that they too believe that it's owning content rather than selling the delivery hardware that counts), and I'm really not sure that Nintendo or Sega would have the faintest idea how to do it. Microsoft are about the only organisation around at the moment that has a demonstrated track record of buying a mediocre product and badge-engineering it to success-by-brute-force. Would that it were not so. 8( > Amancio -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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