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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Can AT Surfer compete with Apple/Disney?
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- Date: 17 Feb 1996 18:34:19 GMT
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- Greg_Blanchard (earthstar@grumpy.magg.net) wrote:
-
- : I said that the window of opportunity for a 'net surfer package is very
- : small. (in a year or two new tech will make the web as accessible as the
- : telephone or the whole concept will be as dead as an Atari 2600). He
-
- Well, I wholeheartedly disagree with you on that point.
-
- Cable has a 30% market penetration in the US. Cable's not very
- expensive. A lot of money has gone into putting the current coax cable
- structure in.
-
- Just up and replacing this with something totally new is not going to be
- financially feasible unless it's just as cheap as putting in cable, which
- I doubt. Same goes for any "cable modem" solution--unless it's just as
- cheap for the home, it's not going anywhere.
-
- People aren't going to buy totally new technology more often than they
- buy cars. The fact that VHS VCRs and home computers caught on, I
- believe, is something of a fluke. Don't count on ISDN madness sweeping
- the nation.
-
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