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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 213.43+6.2%Dec 19 9:30 AM EST
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (46576)7/8/2001 2:57:49 PM
From: f.simonsRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
re: I don't see how anyone should be blamed. This is just free-market capitalism at work. AMD
doesn't have a God-given right to a minimum percentage of the market, and Intel should
never expect a market that they currently dominate to stay competitor-free forever.

Ten-

No disagreement here. But there is a difference between having a right to do something and having it be beneficial to do it.
It has been suggested here that AMD just may have been better off spending some money educating the consuming public to the supposed fact that AMD had a superior product at a modest discount rather than just marketing a "superior" product for a *lot* less money with very little attendant advertising. The posters on these threads are extremely sophisticated investors/consumers, much more so than the average consumer. This fact seems lost on a lot of marketers making the big bucks.
Nothing is going to just sell itself against Intel. If the Athlon is such a superior product, why sell it so cheap? All the attempts to make this a complicated issue are laughable. The strategy should be, if you have a superior product, get the word out heavily and often. AMD's has been "quality will speak for itself; give them away and the world will come."
If AMD had really believed in the Athlon and had marketed it as the superior product they believed it to be, ASPs for both companies would be up. That was my only point. Like Dennis Miller, I could be wrong.

Frank
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