solarwind wrote:
> I believe Apple put iTunes in the way, so the user will find it
> too easy to buy from the Apple store. Jobs is the ultimate sales guy.

Exactly. The success of microsoft and apple come not from the quality
of their software, but from the wit of their salesmen.
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People who need a justification for the failure of their software love this 
argument (it is only second to the "failure of the market" excuse).

>From my experience -- if you have a good product, it tends to sell itself. 
If you have a product that people don't want (no matter how technologically 
sophisticated it is), you can spend boatloads of money on marketing and 
still not even recoup the development costs.

The trick is finding a good balance between how much of your resources you 
spend on engineering, versus how much you spend on marketing.

Vitaliy 

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