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Technology Stocks : 3DFX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: view who wrote (13247)	6/14/1999 11:42:00 AM
From: Greg S.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 16960

Apple/3dfx and AGP 4x - why isn't everyone eating crow? Where are all the apologies from the hardware reviewers that talked about how important AGP 4x is and how 3dfx was making a big mistake not shipping a 4x-compliant part? It looks like 3dfx was the smartest of the crowd, not wasting resources rushing an unused feature to market. Typical media - find a scapegoat and then don't apologize when you're wrong. On a bizarre but possibly relevant tangent, I feel like 3dfx is the "Apple" of the 3d chip market: - 3dfx can run Glide but other chips can't; Apple can read PC data but not vice versa (this is what sickens me the most about Windows). - 3dfx consistently puts out quality, leading-edge products but keeps getting dissed by the uninformed masses; Apple systems have proven to perform much faster than PCs but still don't enjoy widespread acceptance. - 3dfx bought STBI for vertical integration; Apple bought Motorola for similar reasons. - 3dfx stock is a laggard with a history of tantalizing runups; ditto for Apple. - 3dfx fans are tenacious and loyal; Apple fans are of the same blood. Anyone else seeing any parallels here? If anyone else is interested I'd enjoy seeing a deeper comparison between 3dfx now and Apple circa 1992. Greg "a PC user but one that knows quality when he sees it" S.