On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Vitaliy wrote:

> Funny NYPD wrote:
> > Good point.
> > Release a product full of bugs to force end-user keep upgrading, endless 
> > patches for patches, .... ... Manager got huge bonus for market 
> > "expanding", engineer got Job security, every body from the vendor side 
> > are happy, the end-users get all the pain and have to pay more for less. 
> > This is so much for the typical USA MBAs marketing strategy.
> > Funny N.
> 
> Funny, where you get your ideas from? I know that defending Microsoft is 
> unpopular, and I hate Vista too, but I don't subscribe to crazy conspiracy 
> theories. In general, it makes me cringe anytime someone starts saying "this 
> company is making a shoddy product on purpose, so it would break and the 
> customers would buy more".
> 
> Vista problems = more money for Apple and Linux. Microsoft would have an 
> incentive to make a good operating system, even if they were a total 
> monopoly, though there's no question that they would have a much stronger 
> incentive if they had more competition. Microsoft have zero incentive to 
> sabotage their products. In fact, there are many reasons why they would NOT 
> want to do that.
> 
> I really wish more engineers paid attention in Economics 101 (or had better 
> professors). On the other hand, maybe it's good that some of the best 
> engineers are mediocre businessmen -- they can concentrate on what they do 
> best. :)
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Vitaliy 

No it's called planned obsolesence (Economics 101) ...

What would happen to car manufacturers if they made rust proof cars?

With regards to "more money for Apple", I seriously doubt that someone 
that has bought a wintel box is going to chuck it and buy apple because he 
doesn't like vista s/he might revert to a copy of xp until a better 
version of vista comes along then just maybe he'll pay for that to get 
what vista promissed in the first place. How have M$ lost, they are using 
their age old tactics of FUD (fear / uncertainty / doubt) to make 
(average) users want to upgrade.

I remember one of my lectures telling us "don't build them a rolls royce 
if you can sell them a mini for the same price, once you've saturated the 
market with minis, then start selling rolls royces". In other words sell 
whatever crap you can get away with today for as much as you can, then go 
back and sell the same punters better crap tomorrow.

Regards
Sergio Masci
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