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Jasper Janssen wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 1999 05:58:46 GMT, "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com>
> wrote:
> > Doesn't that assume that nothing else would have filled in the demand if
> > those two players hadn't been there?
> What demand? Intel and MS _created_ much of todays' demand for
> computing. They did this to make money.
Much as I would like to believe that sometimes IBM and MS are capable of
creating something (1), this is one thing they simply grabbed and ran with.
The *need* was already there; they simply told consumers that the *want* was
there, only a few years before it would have been.
Cheers,
- jsproat
1. Though this flies in the face of the overwhelming evidence to the
contrary. Heh heh heh -- a cow-orker told me today, in a discussion on the
incredible depths of understanding IBM has of the market, that if IBM had
invented sushi, they would have called it "dead raw fish".
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com>
http://www.io.com/~jsproat
Darth Maul, you have a courtesy phone call
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