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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: 15 Feb 1996 15:22:09 GMT
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- David Waters (mbanet@netcom.com) wrote:
- : Jason Compton (jcompton@flood.xnet.com) wrote:
- : : While I'm all for AT marketing, just because two companies announce a
- : : "technology alliance" doesn't mean they're going to do...well, anything.
-
- : Actually, it seems that the announcements of these big name mergers is
- : analogous to the disinformation campaign during the cold war between the
- : USA and the (former) USSR. Sometimes it seems that it's just a fishing
- : expedition to temporarily paralyze the market.
-
- An astute analogy. Or, to put it another way, it's a fairly Orwellian
- situation--it didn't matter if no boots or a million boots were made, as
- long as the people were told that a million boots were made.
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