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Subject: Re: User's Evaluation of Handheld Cellular: Fujitsu vs Motorola
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Date: 24 Mar 91 05:56:39 GMT
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> That Fujitsu phone was developed with Japanese government money,
> targeted to destroy the Micro-TAC and Motorola.  Please understand
> that Japanese view competition as warfare, and that they (like George
> Bush) do not settle for less than total victory.  Motorola must
> develop new products out of revenues from sales of existing products,
> like all American companies.

> You may choose to ignore these facts when you make your choice of
> products.  But you may wish to ponder the impact thousands of
> decisions like yours will have on the future of America, and your job.

These facts (I'm assuming they ARE facts) would only serve to
encourage me to buy the Japanese item.  If they're smart enough to
figure out a way to design a competitor to the Micro-TAC that's so
good that it puts an end to the the Micro-TAC, more power to them.

Instead of whining about their methods or buying inferior products
that are made inefficiently by ill-educated and/or lazy U.S. workers,
the truly American response would be to buy the best product at the
lowest price, regardless of its origin.  Perhaps the solution to your
problem is to have the U.S. government actually develop a national
industrial policy.  When it's done that, perhaps it could look past
its parochialism and learn something from Japanese methods ... even
perhaps ... dare I suggest it? .... fund new product development.


Philip V. Hull

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