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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Greater Fool who wrote (85886)1/7/2000 5:36:00 PM
From: kash johal  Read Replies (1) of 1572943
 
Greater Fool,

Re:"Are you trying to imply that ego is going to supplant genuine need in driving microprocessor sales? Sure, it may help stimulate some demand, but I find it hard to imagine it will be a primary driver.

Especially when the absurd complexity of operating systems and software makes replacement of computers an utter pain in the neck."

ABSOLUTELY ego is the driving factor.

Clearly a 200-300Mhz CPU is fine for the VAST majority of folks who use PCs for browsing, MS OFFICE tasks etc.

And this is NO DIFFERENT from any other consumer market.

We are beyond the utility phase in the market otherwise everybody would be never buy buy anything besides an e-machine.

The same applies to MSFT.

There are FREE alternatives to their OS and OFFICE products from SUN, BEOS, NOVL, CORL etc.

If you apply your logic that utility is everything in the PC market and ignore consumer taste, brand loyalty etc MSFT would be the greatest SHORT opportunity in history.

regards,

Kash
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