Your formula isn't much different. Besides, the FCC may find a way to force the issue into my formula.
You have to understand that to advance you must compromise. I hear a hint of greed in the words you've chosen. This is the thing that must be resisted. This is the failed attitude of NSCP, AAPL, or ADBE, just to name a few.
Let me tell you what made MSFT great. Giving away product. Finding a way to make things less expensive. I would reduce the gross revenues to make my product especially attractive in price. I want the people to benefit from my great thing and I don't care how much money it will make or how much it fails to make because what is important is to create satisfied customers with good effective products. When you approach commerce from that angle, it's cornucopia in money. To be sure you must have the good product. So make it good. Do what it takes to make it A-one. That's where MSFT has failed.
If ATHM takes the AAPL attitude and gets tough, they'll just be shooting themselves in the foot. You don't have to give the store away to succeed in compromise. You have to identify the greater good. That usually means short term sacrifice. You will achieve nothing in life without sacrifice. If ATHM sacrifices short run profitability to include AOL in a comprehensive broadband plan, ATHM will earn far more. See my post #1954.
Your thinking tries to build on negatives. I don't want AOL's income to shrink. I want it to grow. I don't want AOL's revenues to shrink either. This sounds like the spiel of the democrats. The pie is fixed. If X grows, Y shrinks. It's dog-eat-dog. Also, you don't need a rising tide. You can have two pies growing. X doesn't need to take from Y, but they can share a piece of their pies for variety at their option. Build on positives. Make your pie and theirs grow. Then if you do share, you'll get a bigger piece, if self interest is always the final arbiter. |
