On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, alan smith wrote:

> You spend millions to develop a product, where it can do amazing 
> things.  Is anyone going to buy it for what it cost to design, debug, 
> build, and market?
>
> Nope

Assuming it cost $X to develop and they expect to sell $N pieces at what 
the market can bear the gain is computable. The only problem is the MBA 
who decides the 'price structure' of the product (and what to cripple).

Even he is not at fault, since market survey shows that there should be 
at least two (and preferrably three) types of each thing, since buyers 
have a birdie about 'relative value' and other things that are difficult 
to explain outside the walls of a loony bin. (Any chrome on that scope 
?)

The real question is, why does the loony bin parameter apply for objects 
that have no use beyond pure engineering and research, where the 
purchasers and the bean counters (both the seller's and the buyer's) 
both know about the loony bin parameter (do they ?).

Peter
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