Marketing (was RE: SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Aug 2001

At 07:15 AM 8/16/2001 -0400, you wrote:

...
 I've always believed that consumers should research
the products they
purchase, and that a good product will sell itself. Marketing merely
raises the ultimate costs of a product, so perhaps you'll understand
why I don't have a very high opinion of it. Or of a generation or
programmers who rose to serve marketing's needs.          While marketing costs
money that must be recovered in sales, if a 
product has a high volume in can be sold at a smaller margin and therefore 
cost less than it otherwise would.  Therefore good (<-) marketing can lower 
the price of a product even though it adds to the cost.

GZ