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From: ewhac@well
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Japan and semiconductors
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Date: 3 Jan 88 21:08:00 GMT
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In article <2244@crash.cts.com> haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) writes:
>          Is this a good thing?   If the Japanese are successful in driving
>        our chip industry under because of the concentration of capital that
>        their society allows, we will all be in trouble!   Remember that in
>        Japan there are individuals who control much more capital than there
>        (oops, their) counterparts here.  They operate on a longer range plan
>        than we.
>
	If American business has this much trouble staying competitive, then
American business needs to seriously reexamine itself.

	The reason the Japanese do so well over here is because,
domestically, they have the toughest customers in the world.  The Japanese
are the hardest people to please anywhere, and naturally, Japanese
manufacturers have a lot of experience with them.  So when a Japanese
product is successful at home, the North American market is a walkover.

	The above insight is brought to you courtesy of Paul Hawken, who
also has interesting insights on advertising (hint, hint)....

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