Wow, you know, I have to take a meeting (I mean, get a sandwich at Shensons kosher deli) and I come back to find that somebody actually is reading my email bombs. Fab!
Terms, OK:
Market: A place or process wherein goods or services are exchanged for each other or for money.
Charity: A situation or condition or system or action where people give you things for free.
Monopoly: A place or process or company where people put their competitors out of business by giving away the product (among other tactics fair and foul), then when nobody is left but them, do whatever they want.
Or, let me try it this way:
Paid browser market (whatever size that is):
Netscape market share 99%
Others 1%
Giveaway browsers in actual regular use (my guesses):
Microsoft 49%
Others 1%
Netscape 50%, in spite of it not being conveniently forced down your throat during a windows install. And that's giving Reg and Sal the benefit of the doubt.
Apples to Apples seems to have confused the pundits of Redmond somewhat as an analogy (you guys fail the GRE? :)
Lets try: Paid market share dollars to paid market share dollars, excluding other speculative and unproven concerns.
Cheers,
Chaz
BTW, Nader has been forcing companies to kill product lines and stop bad business practices for years. Don't underestimate him. Remember, he has his *own* legal staff, and he's not afraid of anyone.
P.S. Dan I know you know all this, your letter just happened to be the end of the chain. |
