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

To: i-node who wrote (446485)	1/10/2009 7:53:25 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574845

"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." You think like a greedhead (R). If IBM hadn't given it away, they would never have grown as large as they became. The microcomputer market would have been a babble of single-source competing proprietary brands, OS's, software and hardware. They'd have been like Apple, who rightly should have OWNED the micro market after introducing the Mac, which was years ahead of every machine except Xerox's very expensive systems, but just couldn't force themselves to open the standard.

To: i-node who wrote (446485)	1/11/2009 9:10:50 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574845

I fully understand the "power" of a brand and never said anything to suggest otherwise. Well, you could have fooled me...actually you have. 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. Oh, man...you've lost another argument and are trying to change the subject to how good or bad a company IBM is...and this one is like all the others over your bumper sticker head. 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. You make the automobile case for me and don't even know it... The IBM brand continues to be strong, but not on the basis of anything it has done in the last 25 years. Ask yourself why the an inferior PC became the overwhelming standard in the consumer space? Re-read it...learn just how dumb you are. Here, let me re-write it for you... The American automobile brand continues to be weak, on the basis of what it has done over the last 40 years. Al