17 Sep
1998
17 Sep
'98
7:24 a.m.
At 05:05 PM 9/16/98 PDT, you wrote:
Indeed, that's the way it should be. Would you buy
an item that's
never been reviewed or advertised? The only problem is that there's
Never advertised, sure. Never reviewed, possibly. Don't think I ever saw
an ad for the Sony Mavica I've got, and I know I never read a review.
Bought it because a friend had one.
I don't recall seeing much advertising for the Voicemail system I have.
Saw a mention of it somewhere, got info, compared what it could do to
others, and bought it. It's still the only consumer-priced system I've
seen that can do what I need it to.
The mechanics I take my (non-Land-Rover) cars to doesn't have an ad in the
phone book. Doesn't need one; they get all the business they need by word
of mouth. If you need a big ad, your customers aren't doing your selling
for you.
Which of course does not mean that the majority of the idiots out there
don't buy things simply because some guy in a fancy suit says they should.
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17 Sep
17 Sep
6:21 p.m.
Date sent: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:24:56 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Uncle Roger <sinasohn(a)ricochet.net>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
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Subject: Re: GUIs 'forced' on people (was Re: Here's something to
consider.)
Which of course does not mean that the majority of the
idiots out there
don't buy things simply because some guy in a fancy suit says they should.
Uncle Roger "There is
pleasure pure in being mad
roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know."
Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/
Then why did peple think that pc's were "toys" until IBM told them it was
ok to
have one? Engineers were doing great things with Apple II's, but the front office
refused to buy them because they weren't "real computers."
Then IBM came along with the 5150, and suddenly everyone said, "Oh. It's from
IBM. It must be a real computer and now we must buy one."
I feel that people also dismissed the first Mac for the same reason. (I know, it
had limited apps to start with, but wider initial acceptance would've possibly
changed that.) If they had gone on ease of use, elegance of interface, and
technological superiority, they wouldn't have bought slow, clunky DOS-based
XT's instead. The Amiga suffered the same fate. Drastically superior
technically, but perceived by the business world as only a toy. Multimedia was
for games and kids until Gates and IBM told them that this new "multimedia"
thing they came up with was going to be the wave of the future.
Likewise, GUI's were scorned by the business world until MS brought out
Windows and told them it was OK to use a mouse.
Paul Braun
NerdWare -- The History of the PC and the Nerds who brought it to you.
nerdware(a)laidbak.com
www.laidbak.com/nerdware
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