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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alighieri who wrote (446477)	1/10/2009 10:14:06 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574772

>>Actually all I was trying to do is to make you understand the power of a brand.. I fully understand the "power" of a brand and never said anything to suggest otherwise. What you were doing was trying to defend the countless ways in which IBM blew it, one of which was the PC - a market which IBM could easily have owned lock, stock, and barrel yet, somehow, managed to hand over to MSFT, DELL, and a ton of other companies who were able to capitalize on IBM's failure. I'm sorry, but anyone who believes IBM is a picture of great marketing just doesn't understand what great marketing is. It is true that nobody ever got fired for buying IBM, but that adage began long before the advent of the PC. The IBM brand continues to be strong, but not on the basis of anything it has done in the last 25 years.