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To: Alomex who wrote (10911)	4/7/1998 10:27:00 AM
From: X-Ray Man	Respond to of 213186

Not only that, but Betamax eventually went on to be quite successful in a high-end niche market--ENG production as Betacam--until this day, when it is finally being supplanted by another Sony advance, digital video. So, does this "prove" that reorienting a better technology toward high-end niche when it loses to poorer technology in the mass market is a guarranteed successful marketing strategy? Moreover, some of that technology was incorporated into 8-mm, which became successful while sharing the market with VHS. Again, what is the lesson here? Not that Sony was doomed to die with all of its technology. And THAT is the real lesson of Betamax vs. VHS for Apple, IMO.