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From: fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Better than Advertising
Keywords: value enhancement
Message-ID: <133547@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 27 Mar 90 22:23:35 GMT
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In article <19478@grebyn.com>, ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
> In article <5830@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> brianr@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Brian E Rhodefer) writes:
> >Recently, and from time to time, people lament Commodore's
> >feeble advertising campaigns.  I can't say how effective
> 
> 	Sorry, I don't think that's the problem.  I think the problem
> that must be addressed has nothing whatever to do with technical merit
> or available applications.

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> 	There's hope, I think, but it won't come soon and it won't be
> easy.  Look how many years ago Japannese cars were considered cheap
> toys, and now today the Lexus and Infiniti are respected luxury cars...


The first Japanese imports *were* cheap.  Some of them very unreliable.
But they learned from their mistakes, improved their engineering skills,
outmanufactured overyone else,...

The Lexus and Infiniti are a completely different kettle of fish.  They
look nice, perform well, and are *well supported*.

That last is as important, if not more so, than all the rest.

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"...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise
anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear
and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..."   Plato, _Phaedrus_