You cited inferior products.
classic example: betamax vs vhs
(expense, licensing difficulty)
my favorite example: os/2 vs windows
(bundling/marketing clout, perceived ease of use)
Betamax and OS/2 failed because the vendors didn't line up 3rd party software support. Windows and VHS are better products.
consumers are not rational actors who select the most technologically advanced product and immediately buy it in large quantities. the most technologically sophisticated (or, for us, "better than the competition")product could be too expensive, too complicated, too difficult to buy, too big, too ugly, too unreliable, etc,
If a product is expensive, big, ugly, unreliable, or difficult to use, it is clearly inferior.
what implications for intel? even if k6 is wonderful, amd will have a very, very difficult time. a good history lesson to pull up is the way a few years ago the amd 386-40, a clearly superior product, had no chance against the intel 386-33.
Didn't Intel beat AMD to market with the 386? Which product was produced first? |
