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- From: davidhoy@aol.com (David Hoy)
- Subject: Re: USR - a PC modem company
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- References: <4d0urh$8rg@usenety1.news.prodigy.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 22:07:12 GMT
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- In article <4d0urh$8rg@usenety1.news.prodigy.com>, davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) says:
-
- >I have been convinced that USR only wants to support PC users, and
- >that other uses are better support by other companies.
- >
- >Example 1 - capabilities:
- > The latest features always come out in the PC internal modem
- >first. 33.6k, voice, DSVD, all for PC users only.
-
- Probably 90% of the market for USR is the PC-compatible market. If you
- were making modems wouldn't you want to develop for the biggest market
- first and then later fill in the holes. They are trying to run a
- business, and this sounds like a sound business practice to me.
-
- >Example 2 - documentation;
- > The online doc files are in Word 6 format. Sure a big help if you
- >run UNIX, VMS, Amiga, etc. Of course it would take at least an hour
- >of someone's time to make PostScript versions, compress them, and
- >upload them.
-
- Again, their biggest market by far is the PC and Mac markets, and MS-Word
- is the most common word processor out there. They want to reach the
- largest possible number of users.
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