Re: What computer would you buy to replace your //* ?

[ag471@yfn.ysu.edu (Eric S. Ford)]

In a previous article, cust_ts@kruuna.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand) says:

>In article <CC0q9G.16p@news.cso.uiuc.edu> bazyar@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
>>  The Mac is okay, but I find it perfectly valid to not support a company
>>whose officers have publically insulted 6 million customers.
>
>Let me get this straight: I don't _object_ to anybody feeling this way.
>I must ask one question, though: how many buyers of Dell, Olivetti, AST,
>etc. feel they are supporting these companies?
>I suppose you get my point.

Since when is it the customer's responsibility to "support" a vendor?  I
thought it worked the other way around.  The oft rumored demise of Apple
Inc as a major player may be in part attributable to their failure to do
just that.  By that I am not referring to the II users' lament but the fact
that Apple Marketing strategy has focused on having a customer base that
flocked to their arguably superior  but over-priced product.  The MS-DOS
machine proliferation (and thus market superiority) can be credited to both
diversity and low prices.  Let's face it, the consumer world has always been
more willing to buy an inferior product for a cheap price than to buy a
superior product at an unacceptably high price.


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Eric S. Ford    ag471@yfn.ysu.edu