sergio masci wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> There we go again, with more Microsoft-bashing emotional nonsense.
>
> This is not emotional nonsense, it's a fact of life. This is the main
> reason why brand recognision works.

*Sigh*

Who are these bleating "average users", who are competent enough to use a 
computer, but too dumb to resist the FUD? Certainly not you, or users on 
this list, or members of your family?

>> I'm joking of course, but you don't build minis or rolls royces, you 
>> build
>> what the market wants.
>
> No you manipulate the market to want what you make. As an example consider
> the electric light blub. Clearly people want to illuminate their
> environment when it gets dark but they already had this ability before the
> electric light bulb was invented. And simply inventing it didn't cause
> people to switch to it. There was a whole infrastructure that had to be
> developed and put in place. There was no market for light bulbs until the
> market was created.

Sergio, the "you manipulate the market" argument is just silly. The market 
*wanted* electricity and light bulbs. As someone else has pointed out, they 
were (and still are) overall superior to other lighting technologies. You 
don't use kerosene to illuminate your home, do you?

Following your line of reasoning, around the same time Graham Bell too 
"manipulated the market" with his telephone (which also needed an 
infrastructure).

Google has manipulated the search engine market -- by creating a better 
search engine.

So, who's _not_ "manipulating the market"?

The point is, you cannot make people buy something against their will, no 
matter how much you spend on marketing. Otherwise, there would be ads on TV, 
selling pink mini-skirts to Hell's Angels.

"Hi. Billy Mays here, for Pink Mini Skirts for Hell's Angels...."

Vitaliy 

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