To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.lego.directOpen lugnet.lego.direct in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 LEGO Company / LEGO Direct / 2134
2133  |  2135
Subject: 
Re: What Kids really want. Not Juniorization.
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general
Date: 
Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:47:29 GMT
Viewed: 
2140 times
  
In lugnet.lego.direct, John D. Forinash writes:
In article <G9qpz8.9yG@lugnet.com>,
Timothy D. Freshly <timfreshly@shaheenlaw.com> wrote:
Everybody remember what happened to McDonalds when they tried to get into
serving pizza?  The lesson here is that there are already companies out
there (Nintendo, Sony, etc.) who will always be heads and shoulders above
LEGO in their respective fields because that is what they do.  Nintendo

I think you're missing something here. Nintendo and Sony are in the
positions they're in because when someone said, back in 1982, "The
lesson here is that there are already companies out there (Atari, Mattel,
etc.) who will always be heads and shoulders above...", Nintendo and
Sony didn't get the lesson.

After all, everybody remember what happened when Papa John's when they
tried to get into serving pizza?

-JDF

Nintendo and Sony didn't try and get into the pizza business.



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: What Kids really want. Not Juniorization.
 
(...) I think you're missing something here. Nintendo and Sony are in the positions they're in because when someone said, back in 1982, "The lesson here is that there are already companies out there (Atari, Mattel, etc.) who will always be heads and (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)

53 Messages in This Thread:

















Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR