Re: Apple's ways

[Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>]

On 05 Aug 2001 19:14:16 GMT, Supertimer wrote:

> wbdesnoy@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill) wrote:
>
>>You are always futzing around with the
>>same issues (particularly if you are looking for legacy support), and the
>>same mentality.  The competition seems to drive the market towards the same
>>low quality solutions.
>
> Competition is the greatest engine of ingenuity which results in HIGH
> quality solutions. 

This statement is fine in theory but in practice competition leads the bean
counters to producing the cheapest junk they can with the resultant increase in
landfill dumping because "it is to expensive to repair". I've all but given up
selling Intel systems because when I quote for a quality system including Asus
motherboard and Philips monitor I get told I'm too expensive. But, 3 months
later, when the cheap low budget system they have bought starts having problems
guess who gets the support call. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

 If what you say about competition was correct,
> the free market should have collapsed, communist central planning
> succeeded and today the best consumer goods should be coming
> from the still extant Soviet Union, right?

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