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From: Jay Martin <jaymmartin@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: The great Java showcase (re: 2nd historic mistake)
Date: 1997/08/29
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Date: 1997-08-29T00:00:00+00:00
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> Ell said
> 
> <<No it isn't.  You can win with an inferior product due to other factors.
> The overwhelming evidence of which some refuse to accept.>>
> 
> No you can't win with an inferior product, winning or success with products
> is how superiority is measured.
> 
> The trouble is that technical people tend to think that wizz-bang technical
> features are what is important. No doubt the Sony guys working on Beta
> really thought that image quality was the most important factor -- it was
> of course NOT true, and the longer playing time of VHS was what consumers
> wanted.
> 
> Technical people are always sitting around grumbling that consumers don
> t make the "right" choice, but usually such grumbling is just an expression
> of incompetence in their ability to figure out what is important.
> 
> There are many reasons people buy product A over product B. They prefer
> a large company (which tends to get reflected by advertising clout), they
> like pretty packaging, they like being sure it will still be around a while
> from now, they don't want to feel they are experimenting etc etc etc. The
> fact that some technie thinks that super feature X is what is important
> is pretty irrelevant.

I wish I had such "faith" in the rationality of human
beings.  Of course when you hear: "We don't need no 
stinkin language designed by some military bureaucracy"....
:-)

Jay