Off-Shore Engineering

Derek Neighbors plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
12 Mar 2003 22:34:32 -0700


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On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 22:25, George Toft wrote:
> > An old, but still valid, axiom in the business world states that if you
> > can't compete on price, compete on quality.
>=20
> Beta video format, Amiga Computer, Digital Audio Tape, OS/2, SPARC and
> MiniDisc are 6 superior products that lost out to price (and/or bad
> marketing).  I dunno about that axiom . . .

You make a decent point (that quality in itself isnt always enough), but
I can't believe on this list you didn't somehow point out the most
popular operating system (Windows) is far from the one associated with
the highest quality. ;)

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